TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 6

PODIATRISTS

54-608.  Grounds for suspension, denial, refusal to renew or revocation of license. No license may be issued, and a license previously issued may be suspended, revoked or otherwise disciplined, if the person applying or the person licensed is:

(1)  Found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of a crime that is deemed relevant in accordance with section 67-9411(1), Idaho Code;

(2)  Found by the board to be a repeated and excessive abuser of any drug, including alcohol, or any controlled substance;

(3)  Found by the board to be in violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules promulgated pursuant thereto;

(4)  Found by the board to have used fraud or deception in the procuring of any license;

(5)  Found by the board to have had any action, including denial of a license or the voluntary surrender of or voluntary limitation on a license, taken against the licensee by any peer review body, any health care institution, any professional medical society or association or any court, law enforcement or governmental agency;

(6)  Found by the board to have been unethical, unprofessional or dishonorable in the practice of healing the sick; or

(7)  Found by the board to have failed to comply with an order issued by the board.

History:

[54-608, added 1957, ch. 143, sec. 8, p. 235; am. 1976, ch. 361, sec. 7, p. 1188; am. 1993, ch. 216, sec. 53, p. 638; am. 1997, ch. 27, sec. 5, p. 46; am. 2014, ch. 101, sec. 5, p. 300; am. 2020, ch. 175, sec. 14, p. 519.]