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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="11-313" title_number="11" title_name="Optometrists" subtitle_number="3">
  <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 11–315 of this subtitle, the Board, on the affirmative vote of a majority of its members then serving, may deny a license to any applicant, reprimand any licensee, place any licensee on probation, or suspend or revoke a license if the applicant or licensee:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license for the applicant or licensee or for another;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a license;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to a felony or to a crime involving moral turpitude, whether or not any appeal or other proceeding is pending to have the conviction or plea set aside;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Abandons a patient;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Provides professional services while:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Under the influence of alcohol; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article, or other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Promotes the sale of devices, appliances, or goods to a patient so as to exploit the patient for financial gain;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record in the practice of optometry;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Willfully fails to file or record any optometric report as required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>Willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of any optometric report as required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>Willfully induces another to fail to file or record any optometric report as required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>Fails to provide details of the optometric record of a patient to a physician or another optometrist on proper request by the patient;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>Employs another person as a solicitor of business;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="13">
    <text>Splits or agrees to split a fee for optometric services with any person for bringing or referring a patient;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="14">
    <text>Makes a willful misrepresentation in treatment;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="15">
    <text>Aids an unauthorized person in the practice of optometry;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="16">
    <text>Grossly and willfully:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Overcharges for optometric services; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Submits false statements to collect fees for which services are not provided;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="17">
    <text>Behaves immorally in the practice of optometry;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="18">
    <text>Is professionally, physically or mentally incompetent;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="19">
    <text>Advertises in a false or misleading manner;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="20">
    <text>Has had a license to practice optometry denied, suspended or revoked in another state, or has been disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for an act which would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="21">
    <text>Has violated any provision of this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="22">
    <text>Violates any rule or regulation adopted by the Board;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="23">
    <text>Commits an act of unprofessional conduct in the practice of optometry;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="24">
    <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the licensee is licensed and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="25">
    <text>Willfully engages in conduct that is likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="26">
    <text>Knowingly fails to report suspected child abuse in violation of § 5–704 of the Family Law Article; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="27">
    <text>Engages in conduct which exhibits an inappropriate standard of care.</text>
  </level>
</section>
