Sec. 201.502. GROUNDS FOR REFUSAL, REVOCATION, OR SUSPENSION OF LICENSE. (a) The board may refuse to admit a person to examinations and may revoke or suspend a license or place a license holder on probation for a period determined by the board for: (1) violating this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter, including committing an act prohibited under Section 201.5025 ; (2) engaging in deception or fraud in the practice of chiropractic; (3) presenting to the board or using a license, certificate, or diploma or a transcript of a license, certificate, or diploma that was illegally or fraudulently obtained, counterfeited, or materially altered; (4) presenting to the board an untrue statement or a document or testimony that was illegally used to pass the examination; (5) being convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony; (6) procuring or assisting in the procuring of an abortion; (7) engaging in grossly unprofessional conduct or dishonorable conduct of a character likely to deceive or defraud the public; (8) having a habit of intemperance or drug addiction or another habit that, in the opinion of the board, endangers the life of a patient; (9) using an advertising statement that is false or that tends to mislead or deceive the public; (10) directly or indirectly employing or associating with a person who, in the course of the person's employment, commits an act constituting the practice of chiropractic when the person is not licensed to practice chiropractic; (11) advertising professional superiority, or advertising the performance of professional services in a superior manner, if that advertising is not readily subject to verification; (12) purchasing, selling, bartering, using, or offering to purchase, sell, barter, or use a chiropractic degree, license, certificate, or diploma or transcript of a license, certificate, or diploma in or relating to an application to the board for a license to practice chiropractic; (13) altering with fraudulent intent a chiropractic license, certificate, or diploma or transcript of a chiropractic license, certificate, or diploma; (14) impersonating or acting as proxy for another in an examination required by this chapter for a chiropractic license; (15) impersonating a licensed chiropractor; (16) allowing one's chiropractic license to be used by another person to practice chiropractic; (17) being proved insane by a person having authority to make that determination; (18) failing to use proper diligence in the practice of chiropractic or using gross inefficiency in the practice of chiropractic; (19) failing to clearly differentiate a chiropractic office or clinic from another business or enterprise; (20) personally soliciting a patient or causing a patient to be solicited by the use of a case history of another patient of another chiropractor; (21) using for the purpose of soliciting patients an accident report prepared by a peace officer in a manner prohibited by Section 38.12 , Penal Code; (22) advertising using the term "physician" or "chiropractic physician" or any combination or derivation of the term "physician"; or (23) failing to submit fingerprints to the board or Department of Public Safety to enable the board to obtain criminal history record information as required by Section 201.313 . (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(22), the term "chiropractic physician" may be used for the express purpose of filing a claim for necessary services within the definition of chiropractic under this chapter if the billing for the services has universally applied, predetermined coding or description requirements that are a prerequisite to appropriate reimbursement. (c) The board may refuse to admit a person to an examination and may revoke or suspend a license or place a license holder on probation for a period determined by the board because of the person's or license holder's violation of a law of this state, other than this chapter, or a rule of another licensing board in this state, or of a statute or rule of another state as determined through a search conducted as provided by Section 201.314 , if the violation constitutes a violation of the laws of this state or a board rule.
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