§ 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.

Legislative History

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.