Tex. Occ. Code § 1953.201 · Subchapter E. CERTIFICATE DENIAL AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES
DENIAL OF CERTIFICATE; DISCIPLINARY ACTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission or executive director may deny a person's application for a certificate of registration if:
(1) the person's certificate or license to engage in a profession in this state or elsewhere has been revoked for unprofessional conduct, fraud, deceit, negligence, or misconduct in the practice of the profession; or
(2) satisfactory proof is presented to the commission or executive director establishing that the person has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct, fraud, deceit, negligence, or misconduct in the practice of a profession.
(b) The commission or executive director may suspend or revoke a certificate of registration if the certificate holder:
(1) practiced fraud or deceit in obtaining the certificate; or
(2) acted in a manner constituting gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct in the practice of sanitation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 4, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 5.246, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 202), Sec. 1.276, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1953.htm
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