68-29-127 - Suspension, revocation or denial of personnel licenses Grounds. - Tennessee Statutes

68-29-127. Suspension, revocation or denial of personnel licenses Grounds.

The board has the power to suspend or revoke the licenses of medical laboratory personnel or special analysts or to deny the issuance of a license or a registration certificate whenever medical laboratory personnel or special analysts commit any of the following offenses:

     (1)  Making a false statement on an application for a license or any other document required by the board;

     (2)  Engaging or attempting to engage or representing oneself as entitled to perform any medical laboratory procedure or category of procedures not authorized in such person's license;

     (3)  Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations or procedures;

     (4)  Reporting that is erroneous;

     (5)  Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;

     (6)  Having been convicted of a felony or of any crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of any state or of the United States. The record of conviction or a certified copy of the record shall be conclusive evidence of such conviction;

     (7)  Providing professional services while mentally incompetent, or under the influence of alcohol, a narcotic, or other controlled, dangerous substance that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;

     (8)  Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provisions of this chapter or the rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter;

     (9)  Immoral or unethical conduct; or

     (10)  Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.

[Acts 1967, ch. 355, § 27; 1973, ch. 141, § 11; 1980, ch. 475, § 8; T.C.A., § 53-4127; Acts 1989, ch. 467, §§ 8, 9, 12.]