65-4214. Violations; penalties. - Kansas Statutes

65-4214

Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH Article 42.--EXAMINATION, LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS

      65-4214.   Violations; penalties.(a) It is a violation of law for anyperson, including anycorporation, association, partnership to:

      (1)   Fraudulently obtain, sell, transfer, or furnish any mentalhealth technician diploma, license, renewal of license or record, oraid or abet another therein;

      (2)   advertise, represent, or hold oneself out in any manneras amental health technician or to practice as a mental health technicianwithout having a license to so practice issued under the mentalhealth technician's licensure act, except asprovided in K.S.A. 65-4212 and amendments thereto;

      (3)   use in connection with one's name any designation intendingto imply that such person is a licensed mental health technicianwithout having suchlicense issued as herein provided;

      (4)   practice as a mental health technician during the time suchperson's license is suspended or revoked;

      (5)   otherwise violate any of the provisions of the mental healthtechnician's licensure act; or

      (6)   represent that a provider of continuing education is approved foreducating mental health technicians, unless the provider of continuingeducation has been approved by the board and the approval is in full force.

      (b)   Any person who violates this section is guilty of a class Bmisdemeanor, except that, upon conviction of a second or subsequent violationof this section, such person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

      History:   L. 1973, ch. 308, § 14;L. 1993, ch. 194, § 6; July 1.