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§1133.7. Grounds for disciplinary proceedings
The commission may discipline emergency medical services practitioners by
directing the bureau to deny, withhold, revoke, restrict, probate, or suspend a license to
practice as an emergency medical services practitioner, impose fines and assess costs, or
otherwise discipline an emergency medical services practitioner, and the commission may
direct the bureau to limit, restrict, or deny a student emergency medical services practitioner
from entering or continuing the clinical phase of EMS education for the following causes:
(1)Conviction of selling or attempting to sell, falsely obtaining, or furnishing to a
person a licensed emergency medical services practitioner document.
(2)Conviction of a crime or offense which reflects the inability of a
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§1133.7. Grounds for disciplinary proceedings
The commission may discipline emergency medical services practitioners by
directing the bureau to deny, withhold, revoke, restrict, probate, or suspend a license to
practice as an emergency medical services practitioner, impose fines and assess costs, or
otherwise discipline an emergency medical services practitioner, and the commission may
direct the bureau to limit, restrict, or deny a student emergency medical services practitioner
from entering or continuing the clinical phase of EMS education for the following causes:
(1) Conviction of selling or attempting to sell, falsely obtaining, or furnishing to a
person a licensed emergency medical services practitioner document.
(2) Conviction of a crime or offense which reflects the inability of an emergency
medical services practitioner to provide emergency medical services with due regard for the
health and safety of clients or patients or enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a
criminal charge regardless of final disposition of the criminal proceeding, including but not
limited to expungement or nonadjudication.
(3) Is unfit or incompetent by reason of negligence, habit, or other cause.
(4) Is habitually intemperate in the use of or abuses alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
(5) Is guilty of aiding or abetting another person in the violation of this Part.
(6) Is mentally incompetent.
(7) Endeavors to deceive or defraud the public.
(8) Professional or medical incompetency.
(9) Unprofessional conduct.
(10) Continuing or recurring practices which fail to meet the standards of EMS care
in this state.
(11) Abandonment of a patient.
(12) Has had a certification or license to practice as an emergency medical services
practitioner or to practice as another health care provider denied, revoked, suspended, or
otherwise restricted.
(13) Is guilty of moral turpitude.
(14) Has violated any rules and regulations of the commission or the bureau or any
provision of this Part.
(15) Intentional falsification of any document related to license, emergency medical
services education, or related to the care of the patient.