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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="14-5F-18" title_number="14" title_name="Physicians" subtitle_number="5F" subtitle_name="Naturopathic Doctors">
  <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 a quorum of the disciplinary panel, may deny a license to any applicant, reprimand any licensee, place any licensee on probation, or suspend or revoke a license of any licensee if the applicant or licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is habitually intoxicated, or is addicted to or habitually abuses any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article, or any drug without a valid prescription or indication, or provides professional services while under the influence of alcohol or using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <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="3">
      <text>Has entered into a consent agreement with or has been assessed an administrative penalty by a licensing authority in another state;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains, attempts to obtain, or uses a license for the applicant, the licensee, or another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Is disciplined by a licensing, certifying, or disciplinary authority or is convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country, or 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="6">
      <text>Uses false, deceptive, or misleading advertising;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Advertises, practices, or attempts to practice under a name other than the applicant’s or licensee’s own name;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Aids, assists, employs, or advises any unlicensed individual to practice naturopathic medicine in violation of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record in the practice of naturopathic medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Willfully or negligently fails to file a report or record as required by 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="11">
      <text>Pays or receives any commission, bonus, kickback, or rebate, or engages in any split–fee arrangement in any form with a licensed physician, organization, agency, or other person, either directly or indirectly, for patients referred to health care providers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Exercises influence within a patient–doctor relationship for purposes of engaging a patient in sexual activity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Engages in sexual misconduct with a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Fails to keep written medical records justifying the course of treatment of a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Engages in an act or omission that does not meet generally accepted standards of practice of naturopathic medicine or of safe care of patients, whether or not actual injury to a patient is established;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Delegates professional responsibilities to an individual when the licensee delegating the responsibilities knows or has reason to know that the individual is not qualified by training, experience, or licensure to perform the responsibilities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <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="18">
      <text>Breaches patient confidentiality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Is guilty of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Immoral conduct in the practice of naturopathic medicine; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Unprofessional conduct in the practice of naturopathic medicine;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>Offers, undertakes, or agrees to cure or treat a disease by a secret method, treatment, or medicine;</text>
    </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 purposes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>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="24">
      <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation of the Board;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="25">
      <text>Abandons a patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="26">
      <text>Violates any provision of this title or any regulation adopted by the Board; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="27">
      <text>Fails to complete a criminal history records check under § 14–308.1 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article, before the Board or a disciplinary panel takes any action under subsection (a) of this section, it 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 license if the licensee 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 license on the certification by the Office of the Attorney General.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <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 license, to reprimand a licensee, or to place a licensee 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 licensee, or placing the licensee on probation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall pay any fines collected under this section into the General Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In addition to any sanction authorized under this section, a disciplinary panel may require a licensee to comply with specified terms and conditions determined by the disciplinary panel.</text>
  </level>
</section>
