The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall have the power and duty to:

1. Promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for the performance of its duties pursuant to the provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act, including the requirements for licensure, standards for training, standards for institutions for training and standards of practice after licensure, including power of revocation of a license;

2. Determine, as recommended by the Therapeutic Recreation Committee, the qualifications of applicants for licensure and determine which applicants successfully passed such examinations;

3. Determine necessary fees to carry out the provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act;

4. Make such investigations and inspections as are necessary to ensure compliance with the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act and the rules and regulations of the Board promulgated pursuant to the act;

5. Conduct hearings as required by the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act;

6. Report to the district attorney having jurisdiction or the Attorney General any act committed by any person which may constitute a misdemeanor pursuant to the provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act;

7. Initiate prosecution and civil proceedings;

8. Suspend, revoke or deny the license of any therapeutic recreation specialist for violation of any provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act or rules and regulations promulgated by the Board pursuant to this act;

9. Maintain a record listing the name of each therapeutic recreation specialist licensed in this state;

10. Compile a list of therapeutic recreation specialists licensed to practice in this state. The list shall be available to any person upon application to the Board and the payment of such fee as determined by the Board for the reasonable expense thereof pursuant to the provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act; and

11. Make such expenditures and employ such personnel as it may deem necessary for the administration of the provisions of the Therapeutic Recreation Practice Act.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 384, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.