§ 4125 - Director; duties - Vermont Statutes

§ 4125. Director; duties

(a) The director, with the advice of the advisor appointees, shall:

(1) Provide general information to applicants for licensure as naturopathic physicians.

(2) Administer fees collected under this chapter.

(3) Administer examinations.

(4) Explain appeal procedures to naturopathic physicians and applicants for licensure and complaint procedures to the public.

(5) Receive applications for licensure under this chapter, issue and renew licenses and revoke, suspend, reinstate or condition licenses as ordered by an administrative law officer.

(6) Refer all disciplinary matters to an administrative law officer.

(b) The director, with the advice of the advisor appointees, shall adopt rules necessary to perform the director's duties under this section, which shall include rules regulating the naturopathic formulary, the naturopathic formulary examination, and naturopathic childbirth.

(c) At least annually, in consultation with the commissioner of health and in accordance with consultation procedures adopted by the director by rule, the director with the advice of the advisor appointees, shall review and update the formulary of prescription medicines naturopathic physicians may use consistent with their scope of practice and training. Nonnatural substances found to be substantially safer in treatment or without which a patient's primary care would be compromised may be added to the formulary. The formulary shall include prescription medicines necessary for naturopathic practice and naturopathic childbirth. (Added 1995, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1997, No. 40, § 49(a); 2001, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 35, eff. June 13, 2002; 2003, No. 60, § 22; 2005, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 48; 2007, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 39.)