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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="20-313" title_number="20" title_name="Residential Child Care Program Professionals" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Certification Process">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board shall investigate and take appropriate action as to any complaint filed with the Board that alleges that a certified program administrator or certified residential child and youth care practitioner has failed to meet any standard of the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 20–314 of this subtitle, the Board may deny a certificate to any applicant, reprimand any certified program administrator or certified residential child and youth care practitioner, place any certified program administrator or certified residential child and youth care practitioner on probation, or suspend or revoke a certificate if the applicant, certified program administrator, or certified residential child and youth care practitioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a certificate for a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner, or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a certificate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Otherwise fails to meet substantially the standards for certification adopted by the Board under § 20–205 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <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="5">
      <text>Performs the duties of a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner 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>Is disciplined by a licensing or disciplinary authority of any other state or country or convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Performs the duties of a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner with an unauthorized person or supervises or aids an unauthorized person in performing the duties of a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record while performing the duties of a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Willfully fails to file or record any report as required under law, willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of the report, or induces another to fail to file or record the report;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Commits an act of unprofessional conduct in performing the duties of a program administrator or residential child and youth care practitioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the individual is certified and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Fails to maintain on file with the Board a current resident address and employment address or notify the Board when the residency or place of employment changes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
