Section 10-4-400 Interrogatories by licensing authority.
Section 10-4-400
Interrogatories by licensing authority.
(a) Each licensing authority of Alabama may propound to any professional corporation, domestic or foreign, organized to practice a profession within the jurisdiction of such licensing authority, and to any officer or director thereof, such interrogatories as may be reasonably necessary and proper to enable the licensing authority to ascertain whether such corporation has complied with all the provisions of this article applicable to such professional corporation. Such interrogatories shall be answered within 30 days after the mailing thereof, or within such additional time as shall be fixed by the licensing authority, and the answers thereto shall be full and complete and shall be made in writing and under oath. If such interrogatories be directed to an individual they shall be answered by him, and if directed to a corporation they shall be answered by the president, vice president, secretary or assistant secretary thereof. The licensing authority shall certify to the Attorney General, for such action as the Attorney General may deem appropriate, all interrogatories and answers thereto which disclosed a violation of any of the provisions of this article.
(b) Interrogatories propounded by a licensing authority and the answers thereto shall not be open to public inspection nor shall the licensing authority disclose any facts or information obtained therefrom except insofar as its official duty may require the same to be made public or in the event such interrogatories or the answers thereto are required for evidence in any criminal proceedings or in any other action by the State of Alabama.
(Acts 1983, No. 83-514, p. 763, §21.)