54-2061. ADDITIONAL GROUNDS FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION — COURT ACTIONS — LICENSEE TO REPORT TO COMMISSION. (1) The commission may also take disciplinary action against a licensee including, but not limited to, suspension or revocation of a license, where, in a court of competent jurisdiction, the licensee:
(a) Has been convicted of a felony, or has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving fraud, misrepresentation, or dishonest or dishonorable dealing or which otherwise demonstrates the licensee’s lack of trustworthiness to engage in the real estate business;
(b) Has been declared to lack capacity or to be incompetent or under an infirmity, for the duration of such declaration only;
(c) Has a judgment entered against the licensee in a civil action upon grounds of fraud, misrepresentation, deceit or gross negligence with reference to a real estate-related transaction.
(2) The court’s record of conviction, order determining legal competency, or the order entering judgment in a civil case, or certified copies thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of a conviction, or the court’s action.
(3) A licensee who is convicted, declared legally incompetent, or who has a judgment entered against him in a civil action as described in subsection (1) of this section, shall, within twenty (20) days of such conviction, declaration or judgment, forward to the commission a copy of the legal document evidencing the same.
History:
[54-2061, added 2000, ch. 285, sec. 3, p. 947; am. 2001, ch. 123, sec. 23, p. 441.]
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