TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 24

DRINKING WATER AND WASTEWATER PROFESSIONALS LICENSING ACT

54-2412.  Revocation or suspension of license — Powers of board — Procedures for disciplinary proceedings. (1) The board shall have the power to revoke, suspend, refuse to issue, refuse to renew, or otherwise limit any license or certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for any of the following:

(a)  Procuring a license or registration by knowingly making a false statement, submitting false information, refusing to provide complete information in response to a question in an application for licensure or through any form of fraud or misrepresentation;

(b)  Being convicted of a felony;

(c)  Misrepresentation, or fraudulent representation in the performance of any duty, conduct or activity regulated under this chapter;

(d)  Violating the provisions of this chapter or any rules of the board or any code of conduct or ethical standards adopted by the board;

(e)  Being negligent or incompetent;

(f)  Failing to provide appropriate and personal supervision, if acting as the designated responsible charge operator, to any person gaining experience under the provisions of this chapter.

(2)  The board shall have the power to administer oaths, take depositions of witnesses within or without the state in the manner provided by law in civil cases, and shall have power throughout the state of Idaho to require the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, records and papers as it may desire, relevant to any hearing before it of any matter which it has authority to investigate, and for that purpose the board may issue a subpoena for any witness or a subpoena duces tecum to compel the production of books, records or papers, directed to the sheriff of any county of the state of Idaho where such witness resides or may be found, which shall be served and returned in the same manner as a subpoena in a criminal case.

(3)  The procedures for disciplinary proceedings shall be in compliance with the Idaho administrative procedure act and the rules of the office of the attorney general and the division of occupational and professional licenses.

History:

[54-2412, added 2004, ch. 335, sec. 1, p. 1001; am. 2022, ch. 94, sec. 38, p. 307.]