NAC637A.400. Grounds for initiation.

The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action against a licensee:

     1. Any violation of this chapter or chapter 637A of NRS.

     2. Failure by a licensee to cooperate with the Board during an investigation of an informal complaint, including, without limitation, failing to timely respond to the Board regarding a copy or summary of the informal complaint sent to the licensee by the staff.

     3. Failure by a licensee to cooperate with the Board during an investigation of a formal complaint, including, without limitation, failing to timely respond to the Board regarding a copy or summary of the formal complaint sent to the licensee by the staff.

     4. Failure to attend a disciplinary hearing without having obtained a waiver of the requirement of his or her attendance pursuant to subsection 2 of NAC 637A.530.

     5. Conducting business after the license issued to the licensee has lapsed or if the license has not been renewed.

     6. Willfully making false reports, records or claims in the licensee’s business.

     7. Failure to comply with a settlement agreement, an order of the Board or any other disposition of a prior disciplinary action.

     8. Advertising the business of the licensee in a manner that is:

     (a) False; or

     (b) Intended or has a tendency to:

          (1) Deceive or mislead the public; or

          (2) Create unrealistic expectations in any particular case.

     9. Being subject to disciplinary action by which the Board, or any other entity in this State or in another state which has issued a license, certificate, registration or other credential to a licensee in a related field, revokes or suspends the license, certificate, registration or other credential or takes any other disciplinary action against the licensee.

     10. Delivering a lesser quantity or quality of hearing aid than the hearing aid for which the licensee bills the customer, with the intent to defraud the customer.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Hearing Aid Sp. by R061-03, eff. 1-16-2004)