§ 17-20-308 - Grounds for disciplinary action.

17-20-308. Grounds for disciplinary action.

The State Board of Barber Examiners may refuse to issue or renew or may suspend or revoke any certificate of registration, take other appropriate disciplinary action, and impose a civil penalty as provided in 17-20-310 for any of the following:

(1) Conviction of a felony shown by a certified copy of the record of the court of conviction;

(2) Malpractice or gross incompetency;

(3) Affliction of the applicant, registered barber, or registered apprentice barber with an infectious or communicable disease;

(4) Advertising by means of knowingly false or deceptive statements;

(5) Advertising, practicing, or attempting to practice under a trade name or name other than one's own;

(6) Habitual drunkenness or habitual addiction to the use of morphine, cocaine, or other habit-forming drugs;

(7) Immoral or unprofessional conduct;

(8) The violation of any of the sanitary regulations promulgated by either the board or the Department of Health for the regulation of barbershops and barber schools; or

(9) Continuing employment in a barbershop wherein the sanitary regulations of the board or the department promulgated for the regulation of barbershops or barber schools are known by the registered barber or registered apprentice to be violated.