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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="14-306.4" title_number="14" title_name="Physicians" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 14–405 of this title, a disciplinary panel, on the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum of the disciplinary panel, may deny a registration to practice as a limited X–ray machine operator to any applicant, reprimand any limited X–ray machine operator registrant, place any registrant on probation, or suspend or revoke a registration, if the applicant or registrant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a registration for the applicant, registrant, or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a registration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is guilty of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Immoral conduct in the practice of limited X–ray machine operation; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Unprofessional conduct in the practice of limited X–ray machine operation;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Professionally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Physically incompetent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Mentally incompetent;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Abandons a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Is habitually intoxicated;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Is addicted to or habitually abuses any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <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 any other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Promotes the sale of services, drugs, devices, appliances, or goods to a patient so as to exploit the patient for financial gain;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record in the practice of limited X–ray machine operation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Willfully fails to file or record any report as required under law, willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of a report, or induces another to fail to file or record a report;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Breaches patient confidentiality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Pays or agrees to pay any sum or provide any form of remuneration or material benefit to any person for bringing or referring a patient or accepts or agrees to accept any sum or any form of remuneration or material benefit from an individual for bringing or referring a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Willfully makes a misrepresentation while practicing limited X–ray machine operation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Willfully practices limited X–ray machine operation with an unauthorized individual or aids an unauthorized individual in the practice of limited X–ray machine operation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Offers, undertakes, or agrees to cure or treat disease by a secret method, treatment, or medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Is disciplined by a licensing or disciplinary authority or is convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country or is disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>Fails to meet appropriate standards for the delivery of quality limited X–ray machine operation care performed in any outpatient surgical facility, office, hospital or related institution, or any other location in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Willfully submits false statements to collect fees for which services are not provided;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Has been subject to investigation or disciplinary action by a disciplinary authority or by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Surrendered the license, registration, certification, or permit issued by the State or country; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Allowed the license, registration, certification, or permit issued by the State or country to expire or lapse;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <text>Willfully fails to report suspected child abuse in violation of § 5–704 of the Family Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <text>Sells, prescribes, gives away, or administers drugs for illegal or illegitimate medical purposes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>Practices or attempts to practice beyond the authorized scope of practice;</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>Practices or attempts to practice a limited X–ray machine operation procedure or uses limited X–ray machine operation equipment if the applicant or registrant has not received an education, an internship, training, or experience in the performance of the procedure or the use of the equipment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="26">
      <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation conducted by the Board or a disciplinary panel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="27">
      <text>Fails to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician or licensed radiographer or violates a supervisory order of a supervising physician or supervising radiographer; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="28">
      <text>Fails to complete a criminal history records check under § 14–308.1 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in the Administrative Procedure Act, before the Board or a disciplinary panel takes any action under subsection (a) of this section, the Board or a disciplinary panel shall give the individual against whom the action is contemplated an opportunity for a hearing before the Board or the disciplinary panel in accordance with the hearing requirements of § 14–405 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the filing of certified docket entries with the Board by the Office of the Attorney General, a disciplinary panel shall order the suspension of a registration if the registrant is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere with respect 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="2">
      <text>After completion of the appellate process, if the conviction has not been reversed or the plea has not been set aside with respect to a crime involving moral turpitude, a disciplinary panel shall order the revocation of a registration on the certification by the Office of the Attorney General.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If, after a hearing under § 14–405 of this title, a disciplinary panel finds that there are grounds under subsection (a) of this section to suspend or revoke a registration, to reprimand a registrant, or to place a registrant on probation, the disciplinary panel may impose a fine subject to the Board’s regulations in addition to suspending or revoking the license, reprimanding the registrant, or placing the registrant on probation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In addition to any sanction authorized under this section, a disciplinary panel may require a registrant to comply with specified terms and conditions determined by the disciplinary panel.</text>
  </level>
</section>
