2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-37.2 - The Healing Art of Acupuncture
§ 5-37.2-15 - Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license – Grounds.

SECTION 5-37.2-15

   § 5-37.2-15  Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license – Grounds. – 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, conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude, 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 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 which renders further practice dangerous;

   (9) Engaging in any dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct which may deceive, defraud, or harm the public, or which 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" or "acupuncture assistant", as the case may be;

   (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.