11. CONDUCT SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINE
The Board has jurisdiction to take disciplinary action against licensees, and may, in compliance with applicable procedural and substantive statutory provisions, discipline any physician assistant who:
A. practices fraud or deceit in obtaining a license under these rules or in connection with the service rendered within the scope of the license issued;
B. practices habitual intemperance in the use of alcohol or the habitual use of narcotic or hypnotic or other substances the use of which has resulted or may result in the licensee performing his or her duties in a manner which endangers the health or safety of the licensee's patients;
C. is diagnosed with a mental or physical condition which has resulted or may result in the licensee performing his or her duties in a manner which endangers the health or safety of the licensee's patients;
D. aids or abets the practice of medicine by a person not duly licensed under these rules and who represents himself or herself to be so;
F. is incompetent in the practice for which the licensee is licensed. A licensee shall be deemed incompetent in the practice if the licensee:
(1) engages in conduct which evidences a lack of ability; or fitness to discharge the duty owed by the licensee to a client or patent or the general public;
(2) or engages in conduct which evidences a lack of knowledge, or inability to apply principles or skills to carry out the practice for which he or she is licensed;
G. engages in unprofessional conduct; a licensee shall be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct if the licensee violates any standard of professional behavior which has been established in the practice for which the licensee is licensed;
H. subject to the limitations of 5 M.R.S..A., Chapter 341, is convicted of a crime which involves dishonesty or false statement or which relates directly to the practice for which the licensee is licensed, or conviction of any crime for which incarceration for more than one year may be imposed;
I. violates any rules adopted by the Board;
J. engages in false, misleading or deceptive advertising;
K. prescribes narcotic or hypnotic or other drugs listed as controlled substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration for other than accepted therapeutic purposes;
L. fails to report to the secretary of the Board a licensed physician or physician assistant licensed under these rules for addiction to alcohol or drugs or for mental illness in accordance with: 24 M.R.S.A. § 2505, except when the impaired individual is or has been a patient of the licensee or if the impaired individual is under treatment within the guidelines of 24 M.R.S.A. § 2502, (4-A);
M. fails to comply with the requirements of 24 M.R.S.A. § 2905-A;
N. holds himself or herself out or permits himself or herself to be represented as a licensed physician; or
O. performs other than at the direction of a supervising physician or performs other than under a type of supervision required by these rules. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to give notice of, to limit, to represent, or to love any impact whatsoever on other governmental entities that may have jurisdiction over a physician assistant.
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