§30-20-8 Issuance of license; renewal of license; renewal fee; display of license. - West Virginia Statutes

§30-20-8. Issuance of license; renewal of license; renewal fee; display of license.
(a) Whenever the board finds that an applicant meets all of the requirements of this article for a license to engage in the practice of physical therapy or to act as a physical therapy assistant, as the case may be, it shall forthwith issue to him or her such license; and otherwise the board shall deny the same.

(b) Every licensee shall renew his or her license every two years at such time and upon such forms as prescribed by the board, and upon the payment of a license fee established by the board by legislative rule. Any license which is not so renewed shall automatically lapse. A license which has lapsed may be renewed within five years of its expiration date by payment to the board of the appropriate renewal fee for each year or part thereof during which the license was not renewed. After the expiration of a five-year period, a license may be renewed only by complying with the provisions herein relating to the issuance of an original license.

(c) A licensee desiring to cease engaging in the practice of physical therapy temporarily or to cease acting temporarily as a physical therapy assistant shall send a written notice to the board. Upon receipt of the notice, the board shall place the name of the person upon the inactive list. While his or her name remains on this list, the person shall not be subject to the payment of any fee and shall not engage in the practice of physical therapy or act as a physical therapy assistant, as the case may be, in this state. When the person again desires to engage in the practice of physical therapy or to act as a physical therapy assistant, application for renewal of the license and the payment of a renewal fee for the then current year shall be made to the board.

(d) The board may deny any application for renewal of a license for any reason which would justify the denial of an original application for a license.

(e) The board shall prescribe the form of licenses and each license shall be conspicuously displayed by the licensee at his or her principal place of practice.

(f) Any license issued under the former provisions of this article, which license remains unsuspended and unrevoked, shall be valid and considered for all purposes as having been issued under the provisions of this article and may be renewed, suspended or revoked as licenses issued under the provisions of this article, and any license issued under the former provisions of this article which has lapsed or shall hereafter lapse is subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section pertaining to the lapse of a license issued under the provisions of this article and the renewal thereof.