2019 Tennessee Code
Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts
Chapter 13 - Occupational and Physical Therapy Practice Act
Part 2 - Certification of Occupational Therapists and Assistants
§ 63-13-204. Licenses -- Issuance -- Fees -- Revocation -- Reinstatement -- Renewal.
(a)
(1) The board of occupational therapy shall issue a license to any person who meets the requirements of this part upon payment of the appropriate fees.
(2) Each licensed occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant shall pay a biennial renewal fee to the board as prescribed in this part, payable in advance, for the ensuing years. The secretary of the board shall notify each licensee.
(3) When any licensee fails to register and pay the biennial registration fee within thirty (30) days after registration becomes due as provided in this section, the license of such person shall be administratively revoked at the expiration of the thirty (30) days after the registration was required, without further notice or hearing. Any person whose license is automatically revoked as provided in this section may make application in writing to the board for the reinstatement of such license; and, upon good cause being shown, the board in its discretion may reinstate such license upon payment of all past-due renewal fees.
(b) For purposes of implementing § 63-13-108(b) [repealed], the board shall prescribe and publish nonrefundable fees.
(c)
(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the division, with the approval of the commissioner, shall establish a system of license renewals at alternative intervals that will allow for the distribution of the license workload as uniformly as is practicable throughout the calendar year. Licenses issued under the alternative method are valid for twenty-four (24) months and shall expire on the last day of the last month of the license period; however, during a transition period, or at any time thereafter when the board shall determine that the volume of work for any given interval is unduly burdensome or costly, either the licenses or renewals, or both of them, may be issued for terms of not less than six (6) months nor more than eighteen (18) months. The fee imposed for any license under the alternative interval method for a period of other than twenty-four (24) months shall be proportionate to the biennial fee and modified in no other manner, except that the proportional fee shall be rounded off to the nearest quarter of a dollar (25¢).
(2) No renewal application will be accepted after the last day of the month following the license expiration date under the alternative method authorized in this subsection (c).
(d) The board is authorized to establish requirements for assessing continued competence of licensees.
