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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".14" citation="COMAR 15.14.13.14" title_num="15" subtitle_num="14" chapter_num="13" heading="Sanctions.">
  <text>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:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Practices veterinary medicine;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains a registration;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Is professionally, physically, or mentally incompetent;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Acts in an unprofessional or immoral manner;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Is convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Is convicted of a violation of any federal or State law relating to narcotic drugs;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Is grossly negligent or deliberately cruel to an animal;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Violates any provision of:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Agriculture Article, §2-309, Annotated Code of Maryland,</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>This chapter; or</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Is determined by the Board to be incompetent as a registered veterinary technician.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>