A. An examining committee shall report to the board its findings on the examination of the person as provided in Section 61-7-5 NMSA 1978, the determination of the committee as to the fitness of the person to engage in practice with reasonable skill or safety to patients, either on a restricted or unrestricted basis, and any management that the committee may recommend. Recommendation by the committee shall be advisory only and shall not be binding on the board.
B. The board may accept or reject any finding, determination or recommendation of an examining committee regarding a health care provider's ability to continue to practice with or without any restriction on the license, registration or certification or may refer the matter back to an examining committee for further examination and report.
C. In the absence of a voluntary agreement by a health care provider as provided in Section 61-7-6 NMSA 1978 for restriction of the license, registration or certification of the person to practice, any person shall be entitled to a hearing under and in accordance with the procedure contained in the Uniform Licensing Act [61-1-1 to 61-1-31 NMSA 1978] before the board and a determination on the evidence as to whether restriction, suspension or revocation of license, registration or certification shall be imposed.
History: 1953 Comp., § 67-42-7, enacted by Laws 1976, ch. 3, § 7; recompiled as 1953 Comp., § 67-8A-7; 1993, ch. 326, § 4; 1995, ch. 96, § 7.
The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, substituted "person" for "physician" throughout the section; deleted "medicine" following "practice" in three places; substituted "health care provider" for "physician" throughout the section; inserted "registration or certification" in Subsection B and in two places in Subsection C; and made stylistic changes throughout the section.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, made stylistic changes in Subsections A and C, and rewrote Subsection B.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 73 C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure § 60.
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