54-608. GROUNDS FOR SUSPENSION, DENIAL, REFUSAL TO RENEW OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE. No license may be issued, and a license previously issued may be suspended, revoked or otherwise disciplined, if the person applying or the person licensed is:
(1) Found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of a felony or any offense involving moral turpitude;
(2) Found by the board to be a repeated and excessive abuser of any drug, including alcohol, or any controlled substance;
(3) Found by the board to be in violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules promulgated pursuant thereto;
(4) Found by the board to have used fraud or deception in the procuring of any license;
(5) Found by the board to have had any action, including denial of a license or the voluntary surrender of or voluntary limitation on a license, taken against the licensee by any peer review body, any health care institution, any professional medical society or association or any court, law enforcement or governmental agency;
(6) Found by the board to have been unethical, unprofessional or dishonorable in the practice of healing the sick; or
(7) Found by the board to have failed to comply with an order issued by the board.
History:
[54-608, added 1957, ch. 143, sec. 8, p. 235; am. 1976, ch. 361, sec. 7, p. 1188; am. 1993, ch. 216, sec. 53, p. 638; am. 1997, ch. 27, sec. 5, p. 46; am. 2014, ch. 101, sec. 5, p. 300.]
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