The following acts or occurrences by a holder of a permit to operate a dental laboratory shall constitute grounds for which the penalties specified in Section 328.44a of this title may be imposed by order of the Board of Dentistry:
1. Publishing a false, fraudulent or misleading advertisement or statement;
2. Providing dental laboratory technology at a location for which no permit to operate a dental laboratory has been issued by the Board, except as provided in subsection C of Section 328.36 of this title;
3. Providing dental laboratory technology without a laboratory prescription of a dentist, except as provided in subsection C of Section 328.36 of this title;
4. Failing to return a prescribed work product to a prescribing dentist or the dental office of the dentist;
5. Refusing to allow a member of the Board or an agent or employee of the Board to inspect laboratory prescriptions or dental restorations, appliances or other devices that are being constructed, reproduced or repaired;
6. Failing to retain an original laboratory prescription received from a prescribing dentist for a period of three (3) years from the date of the laboratory prescription, except that the failure to retain a document shall not be a violation of the State Dental Act if the owner of the dental laboratory shows that the document was lost, destroyed, or removed by another, without the consent of the owner;
7. Possessing dental equipment not necessary for performing dental laboratory technology;
8. Failing to pay fees as required by the State Dental Act or the rules of the Board;
9. Operating a dental laboratory without displaying, at the primary place of operation, a permit issued by the Board for the operation of the dental laboratory and the current renewal certificate;
10. Being dishonest in a material way with a dentist;
11. Violating or attempting to violate the provisions of the State Dental Act or the rules of the Board, as a principal, accessory or accomplice; or
12. Pleading guilty or nolo contendere to, or being convicted of, a felony, a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or a violation of federal or state controlled dangerous substances laws.
Added by Laws 1996, c. 2, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1996. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 280, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2012, c. 270, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.