2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 221 HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
§ 9440a Applications, information, and testimony; oath required

§ 9440a. Applications, information, and testimony; oath required

(a) Each application filed under this subchapter, any written information required or permitted to be submitted in connection with an application or with the monitoring of an order, decision, or certificate issued by the commissioner, and any testimony taken before the commissioner or a hearing officer appointed by the commissioner shall be submitted or taken under oath. The form and manner of the submission shall be prescribed by the commissioner. The authority granted to the commissioner under this section is in addition to any other authority granted to the commissioner under law.

(b) Each application shall be filed by the applicant's chief executive officer under oath, as provided by subsection (a) of this section. The commissioner may direct that information submitted with the application be submitted under oath by persons with personal knowledge of such information.

(c) A person who knowingly makes a false statement under oath or who knowingly submits false information under oath to the commissioner or a hearing officer appointed by the commissioner or who knowingly testifies falsely in any proceeding before the commissioner or a hearing officer appointed by the commissioner shall be guilty of perjury and punished as provided in 13 V.S.A. { 2901. (Added 2003, No. 53, { 16; amended 2011, No. 48, { 25.)