2011 Vermont Code
Title 26 Professions and Occupations
Chapter 75 ACUPUNCTURISTS
§ 3410 Unprofessional conduct
§ 3410. Unprofessional conduct
(a) A licensed acupuncturist or applicant shall not engage in unprofessional conduct.
(b) Unprofessional conduct means any of the conduct listed in this section and section 129a of Title 3, whether committed by a licensed acupuncturist or an applicant:
(1) Using dishonest or misleading advertising.
(2) Addiction to narcotics, habitual drunkenness or rendering professional services to a patient if the acupuncturist is intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.
(3) Sexual harassment of a patient.
(4) Engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct with a patient with whom the licensed acupuncturist has had a professional relationship within the previous two years.
(c) After hearing and upon a finding of unprofessional conduct, an administrative law officer appointed under 3 V.S.A. { 129(j) may take disciplinary action against a licensed acupuncturist or applicant. (Added 1993, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), { 1; amended 1997, No. 40, { 41; 1997, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), { 58.)
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