A. If the board has reasonable cause to believe that a health care provider licensed, registered or certified to practice in this state is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients because of a condition described in Section 61-7-3 NMSA 1978, the board shall appoint an examining committee as described in Subsection B of this section to examine the health care provider and shall, following the examination, take appropriate action within the provisions of the Impaired Health Care Provider Act.
B. The appropriate board shall designate three licensed health care providers to be members of an examining committee.
History: 1953 Comp., § 67-42-4, enacted by Laws 1976, ch. 3, § 4; recompiled as 1953 Comp., § 67-8A-4; 1991, ch. 148, § 5; 1993, ch. 326, § 1; 1995, ch. 96, § 4.
The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, substituted "Health care provider boards" for "New Mexico Board of Medical Examiners; board of osteopathic medical examiners" in the section heading; substituted "health care provider" for "physician" throughout the section; in Subsection A, inserted "registered or certified" near the beginning, deleted "medicine" following "practice" in two places, and made a minor stylistic change; in Subsection B, inserted "appropriate", and deleted a former second sentence which read "The examining committee shall include at least one psychiatrist if a question of mental illness is involved".
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, made stylistic changes near the middle of Subsection A and rewrote the first sentence of Subsection B.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, added "New Mexico" at the beginning of the section heading; in Subsection A, substituted "Section 61-7-3 NMSA 1978" for "Section 3 of the Impaired Physician Act", substituted "the Impaired Physician Act" for "the Act" at the end of the Subsection and made minor stylistic changes, and rewrote Subsection B.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 73 C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 49 to 86.
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