54-5315. REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF LICENSE — PROCEDURES FOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS. (1) The board shall have the power to refuse to issue a license, or revoke, suspend, refuse to renew, or otherwise sanction any license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for any of the following:

(a) Procuring a license or registration by knowingly making a false statement, submitting false information, refusing to provide complete information in response to a question in an application for a license or through any form of fraud or misrepresentation;

(b) Being convicted of a felony;

(c) Misrepresentation or fraudulent representation in the performance of any duty, conduct or activity regulated under this chapter;

(d) Violating the provisions of this chapter or any rules of the board or any code of conduct or ethical standards adopted by the board;

(e) Being incompetent;

(f) Failing to provide appropriate and personal supervision, if acting as the designated supervisor, to any person gaining experience under the provisions of this chapter.

(2) The board shall have the power to administer oaths, take depositions of witnesses within or without the state in the manner provided by law in civil cases, and shall have power throughout the state of Idaho to require the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, records and papers as it may desire, relevant to any hearing before it of any matter which it has authority to investigate, and for that purpose the board may issue a subpoena for any witness or a subpoena duces tecum to compel the production of books, records or papers, directed to the sheriff of any county of the state of Idaho where such witness resides or may be found, which shall be served and returned in the same manner as a subpoena in a criminal case.

(3) The procedures for disciplinary proceedings shall be in compliance with the Idaho administrative procedure act and the rules of the office of the attorney general and the bureau of occupational licenses.

History:

[(54-5315) 54-5115, added 2005, ch. 143, sec. 1, p. 448; am. and redesig. 2006, ch. 16, sec. 22, p. 59.]