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Texas Occupations Code

§ 201.5026 — UNPROFESSIONAL OR DISHONORABLE CONDUCT

OC § 201.5026Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part C. OTHER PROFESSIONS PERFORMING MEDICAL PROCEDURES · Ch. 201. CHIROPRACTORS · Art. K. DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES

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(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.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1020 (H.B. 972), Sec. 29, eff. September 1, 2005.