2015 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Health
Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act
§ 68-29-127 - Suspension, revocation or denial of personnel licenses -- Grounds.

The board has the power to suspend or revoke the licenses of medical laboratory personnel or special analysts or to deny the issuance of a license or a registration certificate whenever medical laboratory personnel or special analysts commit any of the following offenses:

(1) Making a false statement on an application for a license or any other document required by the board;

(2) Engaging or attempting to engage or representing oneself as entitled to perform any medical laboratory procedure or category of procedures not authorized in such person's license;

(3) Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations or procedures;

(4) Reporting that is erroneous;

(5) Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;

(6) Having been convicted of a felony or of any crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of any state or of the United States. The record of conviction or a certified copy of the record shall be conclusive evidence of such conviction;

(7) Providing professional services while mentally incompetent, or under the influence of alcohol, a narcotic, or other controlled, dangerous substance that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;

(8) Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provisions of this chapter or the rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter;

(9) Immoral or unethical conduct; or

(10) Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.