Tex. Occ. Code § 201.5026 · Subchapter K. DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES
UNPROFESSIONAL OR DISHONORABLE CONDUCT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For purposes of Section 201.5025(a)(3), unprofessional or dishonorable conduct that is likely to deceive or defraud the public includes conduct in which a chiropractor:
(1) commits an act that violates any state or federal law if the act is connected with the chiropractor's practice of chiropractic;
(2) prescribes or administers a treatment that is nontherapeutic in nature or nontherapeutic in the manner the treatment is prescribed or administered;
(3) violates Section 311.0025, Health and Safety Code;
(4) fails to supervise adequately the activities of those acting under the supervision of the chiropractor; or
(5) delegates professional chiropractic responsibility or acts to a person if the delegating chiropractor knows or has reason to know that the person is not qualified by training, experience, or licensure to perform the responsibility or acts.
(b) A complaint, indictment, or conviction of a violation is not necessary for the enforcement of Subsection (a)(1). Proof of the commission of the act while in the practice of chiropractic or under the guise of the practice of chiropractic is sufficient for the board's action.
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History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1020 (H.B. 972), Sec. 29, eff. September 1, 2005.
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