54-5115 DISCIPLINARY ACTION. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 51

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS LICENSING ACT

54-5115. Disciplinary action. The board may suspend, revoke or refuse to issue or renew a license on any of the following grounds:

(1) The employment of fraud or deceit in obtaining a license under this chapter or in connection with services rendered as a naturopathic physician;

(2) A legal finding of mental incompetence;

(3) Aiding or abetting a person, not duly licensed under this chapter, in claiming to be a naturopathic physician or in practicing naturopathic medicine;

(4) Any negligence, incompetence or misconduct in the performance of naturopathic medicine;

(5) Conviction of any crime involving moral turpitude or the entering of a plea of guilty or the finding of guilt by a jury or court of a commission of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude;

(6) Practicing as a naturopathic physician when physical or mental abilities are impaired by the use of controlled substances or other drugs, chemicals or alcohol;

(7) Failure of the individual practitioner to maintain his or her professional premises in a clean and sanitary condition;

(8) Any other good cause, relevant to qualifications to practice as a naturopathic physician. The board may not suspend, revoke or refuse to issue or renew a license based on the findings that a licensee’s practice is unconventional in the absence of demonstrable harm to a patient and the patient has signed a waiver to the effect that the treatment or device is considered unconventional.