2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 90-136. Refusal, revocation or suspension of license; misdemeanors.

§ 90‑136.  Refusal, revocation or suspension of license; misdemeanors.

(a)       The North Carolina State Board of Osteopathic Examination and Registration may refuse to issue a license to anyone otherwise qualified, and may suspend or revoke any license issued by it to any osteopathic physician, who is not of good moral character, and/or for any one or any combination of the following causes:

(1)       Conviction of a felony, as shown by a certified copy of the record of the court of conviction;

(2)       The obtaining of or an attempt to obtain a license, or practice in the profession, or money, or any other thing of value, by fraudulent misrepresentations;

(3)       Gross malpractice;

(4)       Advertising by means of knowingly false or deceptive statements;

(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 morphine, cocaine, or other habit‑forming drugs.

(b)       Each of the following acts constitutes a Class 1 misdemeanor:

(1)       The practice of osteopathy or an attempt to practice osteopathy, or professing to do so without a license;

(2)       The obtaining of or an attempt to obtain a license, or practice in the profession, or money, or any other thing of value by fraudulent misrepresentation;

(3)       The making of any willfully false oath or affirmation whenever an oath or affirmation is required by this Article;

(4)       Advertising, practicing or attempting to practice osteopathy under a name other than one's own.

(c)       The Board may neither suspend nor revoke any license, however, for any of the causes hereinabove set forth except in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes. (1937, c. 301, s. 3; 1953, c. 1041, s. 13; 1973, c. 1331, s. 3; 1987, c. 827, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 630; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1997‑456, s. 27.)