# COMAR Title 15 — Maryland Department of Agriculture

## Subtitle 14 — Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners

### Chapter 13 — Qualifications for Examination and Registration of a Veterinary Technician

#### Regulation .14 Sanctions.

*COMAR 15.14.13.14*

The Board may refuse to register an applicant, suspend or revoke the registration, reprimand and censure, or place on probation any registered veterinary technician, if the registered veterinary technician:

A. Practices veterinary medicine;

B. Fraudulently or deceptively obtains a registration;

C. Is professionally, physically, or mentally incompetent;

D. Acts in an unprofessional or immoral manner;

E. Is convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude;

F. Is convicted of a violation of any federal or State law relating to narcotic drugs;

G. Is grossly negligent or deliberately cruel to an animal;

H. Violates any provision of:

  (1) Agriculture Article, §2-309, Annotated Code of Maryland,

  (2) This chapter; or

I. Is determined by the Board to be incompetent as a registered veterinary technician.