The department may either refuse to issue or may suspend or revoke any license for any one or any combination of the following causes: (1) Conviction of a felony, or conviction of a violation of any state or federal law regulating the possession, distribution, or use of any controlled substance as defined in § 21-28-1.02, as shown by a certified copy of record of the court; (2) The obtaining of, or any attempt to obtain, a license, or to practice in the profession for money or any other thing of value, by fraudulent misrepresentations; (3) Gross malpractice; (4) Advertising by means of knowingly false or deceptive statement; (5) Advertising, practicing, or attempting to practice under a name other than one’s own; (6) Habitual drunkenness or habitual addiction to the use of a controlled substance as defined in § 21-28-1.02; (7) Using any false, fraudulent, or forged statement or document, or engaging in any fraudulent, deceitful, dishonest, immoral practice in connection with the licensing requirement of this chapter; (8) Sustaining a physical or mental disability that renders further practice dangerous; (9) Engaging in any dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct that may deceive, defraud, or harm the public, or that is unbecoming a person licensed to practice under this chapter; (10) Using any false or fraudulent statement in connection with the practice of acupuncture or any branch of acupuncture; (11) Violating, or attempting to violate, or assisting or abetting the violation of, or conspiring to violate, any provision of this chapter; (12) Being adjudicated incompetent or insane; (13) Advertising in an unethical or unprofessional manner; (14) Obtaining a fee or financial benefit for any person by the use of fraudulent diagnosis, therapy, or treatment; (15) Willfully disclosing a privileged communication; (16) Failure of a licensee to designate his or her school of practice in the professional use of his or her name by the term “doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine”; (17) Willful violation of the law relating to the health, safety, or welfare of the public, or of the rules and regulations promulgated by the state board of health; (18) Administering, dispensing, or prescribing any controlled substance as defined in § 21-28-1.02, except for the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease or for relief from suffering; and (19) Performing, assisting, or advising in the injection of any liquid silicone substance into the human body.
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