A. The following acts or occurrences by a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant shall constitute grounds for which the penalties specified in Section 328.44a of this title may be imposed by the Board of Dentistry or be the basis for denying a new applicant any license or permit issued by the Board:
1. Any of the causes now existing in the laws of this state;
2. A violation of the provisions of the State Dental Act; or
3. A violation of the rules of the Board promulgated pursuant to the State Dental Act.
B. The Board shall also have the power to act upon a petition by a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant for reinstatement to good standing. The Board shall keep a record of the evidence and proceedings in all matters involving the revocation or suspension of a permit, censure or probation of a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant. The Board shall make findings of fact and a decision thereon. Notification of the licensee or permit holder shall occur pursuant to Section 328.21 of this title.
C. The decision shall be final unless the dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant appeals the decision as provided by the State Dental Act.
D. The Board shall have power to revoke or suspend the permit, censure, or place on probation a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant for a violation of one or more of the following:
1. Pleading guilty or nolo contendere to, or being convicted of, a felony crime that substantially relates to the occupation of a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant and poses a reasonable threat to public safety, or a violation of federal or state controlled dangerous substances laws;
2. Presenting to the Board a false application or documentation for a permit;
3. Being, by reason of persistent inebriety or addiction to drugs, incompetent to continue to function as a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant;
4. Functioning outside the direct or direct visual supervision of a dentist;
5. Performing any function prohibited by Chapter 15 of the Oklahoma Administrative Code or any violation that would be a violation for a dentist or hygienist under Section 328.32 or 328.33 of this title, or any other duty not assignable to a dental assistant; or
6. Failure to secure an annual registration as specified in Section 328.41 of this title.
E. The Board's review panel, as set forth in Section 328.43a of this title, upon concurrence with the president of the Board, may determine that an emergency exists to temporarily suspend the permit of a dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant if the panel finds that public health, safety or welfare imperatively requires emergency action. The panel may conduct a hearing pursuant to Section 314 of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the temporary suspension.
F. As used in this section:
1. "Substantially relates" means the nature of criminal conduct for which the person was convicted has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform one or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the occupation; and
2. "Poses a reasonable threat" means the nature of criminal conduct for which the person was convicted involved an act or threat of harm against another and has a bearing on the fitness or ability to serve the public or work with others in the occupation.
Added by Laws 2005, c. 377, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2005. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 405, § 10, eff. July 1, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 229, § 17, eff. July 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 113, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2019, c. 363, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2022, c. 158, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 59. Professions and Occupations
§59-15.1. Short title - Declaration of policy.
§59-15.1A. See the following versions:
§59-15.2. Oklahoma Accountancy Board - Membership - Qualifications - Terms.
§59-15.3. Vacancies - Disqualification - Removal.
§59-15.4. Officers - Meetings - Duties.
§59-15.6A. Confidentiality of investigations - Use as evidence – Disclosure of information.
§59-15.7. Disbursement of fees and monies.
§59-15.8. Application to take examination - Format - Fees - Qualifications.
§59-15.9. Issuance of certificate.
§59-15.10A. Fees – Application and test.
§59-15.11. Use of titles or abbreviations.
§59-15.12. Employees and assistants without certification or permit.
§59-15.14. Registration - Expiration and renewal - Fee.
§59-15.14B. Acts subject to penalty.
§59-15.15B. Designated manager - Succession of business.
§59-15.15C. Services provided by unregistered firm.
§59-15.16. Revocation or suspension of registration and permits of firm.
§59-15.24. Penalties - Reinstatement or termination of suspension.
§59-15.25. Misrepresentation or fraud - Violations of act - Penalty.
§59-15.26. False reports or statements - Penalty.
§59-15.27. Cease and desist order – Fine - Injunction.
§59-15.28. Prima facie evidence.
§59-15.29A. Unlawful use of titles or abbreviations - Injunction, restraining order, or other order.
§59-15.29B. Enforcement actions - Evidence of single act sufficient.
§59-15.35. Continuing professional education.
§59-15.36. Persons who may perform assurance services and audits or issue reports.
§59-46.1. Short title - State Architectural and Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act.
§59-46.6. Meetings - Officers - Salary - Quorum.
§59-46.7. Powers and duties of Board.
§59-46.8a. Unlawful practice or use of title - License—Reciprocity.
§59-46.10. Dues - Cancellation of license or registration for nonpayment.
§59-46.11. Renewal of license or certificate - Display.
§59-46.12. Reinstatement of license, registration or certificate.
§59-46.15. Appeals from Board - Jurisdiction of District Court of Oklahoma County.
§59-46.17. Criminal penalties.
§59-46.19. Board of Architects' Fund.
§59-46.21b. Architects required for certain buildings - Code Use Groups - Exempted buildings.
§59-46.26. Acceptance of compensation from other than client - Unlawful.
§59-46.29. Landscape architecture license required.
§59-46.30. Licensing of landscape architects - Temporary licenses - Certificate of qualification.
§59-46.32. Practice of landscape architecture - Not transferable.
§59-46.33. Restoration of license - Application.
§59-46.34. Seal of landscape architect.
§59-46.35. Unlawful compensation.
§59-46.38. Registration of commercial interior designers - Certificate of title.
§59-46.39. Alternative requirements for commercial interior designer registration.
§59-46.41. Unlawful use of commercial interior designer title.
§59-46.42. Registered commercial interior designer seal.
§59-46.43. Unlawful to receive compensation except from client.
§59-46.44. Unlawful to bid or hold financial interest in entities competitively bidding.
§59-46.45. Personal privilege – Registration nontransferable.
§59-46.46. Application for reissuance of registration.
§59-46.47. No authority to engage in practice of architecture or landscape architecture.
§59-61.5. Practice of barbering defined.
§59-61.6. Board of Barber Examiners - Licenses.
§59-137. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners - Membership - Qualifications - Terms - Removal.
§59-140. Employees of Board - Prosecutions - Materials and supplies - Bonds - Seal.
§59-142. Acts constituting practice of podiatric medicine - Exceptions.
§59-143. Unlawful practices - Penalty.
§59-144.1. Training license - Eligibility - Restrictions.
§59-145. Renewal of licenses - Fees - Suspension on nonpayment - Reinstatement - Records.
§59-145.1. Continuing education requirement for renewal of license - Exemptions.
§59-147. Penalties - Guidelines.
§59-148. Violations – Definitions.
§59-154. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-155. Investigations and hearings.
§59-158. Restraining orders and injunctions.
§59-159.1. Rules and regulations concerning casts for individual shoes.
§59-159.4. Inapplicability to manufacture or sale to persons generally.
§59-160.1. Interpretation of "podiatry" and "podiatric medicine".
§59-161.2. Scope of practice of chiropractic.
§59-161.4. Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
§59-161.5. Meetings of Board – Duties of officers - Bonding and liability.
§59-161.6. Powers of Board - Advisory Committee.
§59-161.7. Application for original license by examination – Definitions.
§59-161.8. Subjects covered by examination.
§59-161.9. Application for original license by relocation of practice.
§59-161.10a. Continuing education.
§59-161.11. Annual renewal license - Fee - Suspension and reinstatement - Disciplinary guidelines.
§59-161.12. Penalties - Grounds for imposition.
§59-161.12a. Certificate – Chiropractic claims consultant.
§59-161.13. Suspension of license because of mental illness.
§59-161.14. Practice without license - Penalties – Injunction.
§59-161.15. Doctors of chiropractic governed by public health laws.
§59-161.16. Chiropractic Education Scholarship Program.
§59-161.17. Chiropractic Undergraduate Preceptorship Program.
§59-161.18. Listing in publications.
§59-161.20. Board of Chiropractic Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-199. Short title – Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act.
§59-199.2. State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
§59-199.4. Executive director.
§59-199.5. Positions and salaries.
§59-199.6. Rules - Implementation - Unlawful acts - Penalties.
§59-199.7. Cosmetology and barber schools.
§59-199.9. Inspection of facilities – Licensure required.
§59-199.10. Expiration and renewal of licenses
§59-199.11. Grounds for denial of license, certificate or registration – Definitions.
§59-199.13. Reciprocity licenses - Criteria for issuing licenses without examination.
§59-199.15. State Cosmetology and Barbering Fund.
§59-199.18. Services provided in a private residence.
§59-328. Designation of parts.
§59-328.1. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.7. Board of Dentistry - Membership - Tenure - Nomination and election districts - Vacancies.
§59-328.10. Officers - Election - Tenure - Meetings - Bond - Liability - Expenses.
§59-328.15A. Board investigators - Powers.
§59-328.15B. Executive Director - Authority.
§59-328.17. Standing committees – Composition - Functions.
§59-328.19. Acts constituting practice of dentistry - Acts not prevented.
§59-328.21. Application for license – Qualifications - Examination.
§59-328.22. Specialty license.
§59-328.23. Emergency temporary licenses for dentistry or dental hygiene.
§59-328.23a. Special volunteer licenses.
§59-328.23b. Retired volunteer licenses.
§59-328.24. Dental assistant permits - Expanded duty permits.
§59-328.25. Oral maxillofacial surgery assistant permits.
§59-328.26. Dental student intern, resident or fellowship permits.
§59-328.27. Faculty licenses and faculty specialty licenses.
§59-328.28a. Applicant criminal background check.
§59-328.31. Professional entities formed for practice of dentistry.
§59-328.31a. Use of trade names – Rules regulating advertisements.
§59-328.31b. Patient record keeping requirements.
§59-328.32. Dentists - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.36. Permit to operate dental laboratory.
§59-328.36a. Laboratory prescriptions.
§59-328.39. Dental laboratory permit holders or technicians - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.39a. Dental laboratory permit holders - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.40a. Registration for mobile dental clinics.
§59-328.41. Renewal certificate - Continuing education requirements – Fee - Automatic cancellation.
§59-328.42. State Dental Fund.
§59-328.43a. Complaints - Review and investigative panels - Panel authority.
§59-328.43b. Patient fatalities - Adverse Outcomes Review and Investigation Panel.
§59-328.44a. Penalties - Judicial review.
§59-328.44b. Surrender of license, permit or certificate.
§59-328.48. Annual statement of receipts and expenditures.
§59-328.49. Unlawful practices - Criminal and civil actions.
§59-328.53. Dentists - Professional malpractice liability insurance.
§59-328.54. Dental practice - Diagnosis via the Internet.
§59-328.55. Death of patient - Notification of Board.
§59-328.56. Unauthorized or forged prescribing of controlled dangerous substances.
§59-328.57. Providing care during a pandemic, disaster or emergency – Administering vaccinations.
§59-328.60. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.61. Declaration of public policy.
§59-328.62. Definitions - Mediation committee - Powers.
§59-328.63. Voluntary status - Protections from liability.
§59-328.64. Proceedings of mediation committee privileged - Exceptions.
§59-328.66. Recommendations of mediation committee.
§59-328.67. Appeal to state mediation appeals committee.
§59-328.68. Request for final appeal.
§59-328.69. Review and hearing by the Board of Governors of Registered Dentists.
§59-328.70. Reasonable procedural rules to be followed.
§59-328.73. Election of remedies - Patient's rights.
§59-353. Short title - Purpose - Declaration of pharmacy as profession.
§59-353.1a. Advanced practice nurses - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.1b. Certified registered nurse anesthetist - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.3. Board of Pharmacy - Membership - Qualifications - Terms of office - Appointments.
§59-353.5. State Board of Pharmacy – Elections and terms - Executive Director.
§59-353.7. State Board of Pharmacy - Powers.
§59-353.7a. Licensure fees for certain entities.
§59-353.10. Assistant pharmacists.
§59-353.11. License renewal - Fee
§59-353.11a. Continuing education requirements - Inactive renewal certificates
§59-353.16A. Incapacity of pharmacist - Effect on license.
§59-353.17. Unlawful use of titles relating to pharmacy.
§59-353.17A. Unlawful impersonation of a pharmacist.
§59-353.18A. Pharmacy technicians - Permits.
§59-353.20.1. Recording of prescriptions - Prescription label requirements.
§59-353.25. Violation of act - Penalty - Perjury.
§59-353.29.1. Veterinary prescription drugs.
§59-353.29.2. Prescriptions for ocular abnormalities.
§59-355.1. Dispensing dangerous drugs - Procedure - Registration - Exemptions.
§59-355.2. Violations of act – Adoption of rules.
§59-355.4. Substituting interchangeable biological products for prescribed biological products.
§59-356. Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act.
§59-356.1. Definitions – Purpose - Application.
§59-356.3. Appeals process - Dismissal - Fraud or willful misrepresentation - Application of act.
§59-356.4. Extrapolation audit prohibited.
§59-356.5. Retrospective application – Audits not covered by act.
§59-358. Pharmacy benefits management licensure – Procedures – Penalties for noncompliance.
§59-360. Pharmacy benefits manager – Contractual duties to provider.
§59-367.3. Program for utilization of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.4. Criteria for accepting unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.7. Promulgation of rules – Donation of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.8. Maintenance of drugs in emergency kits by pharmacies.
§59-368. Access to prescription drugs for low income Oklahomans.
§59-369. Emergency contraceptive prescription.
§59-374. Medication services procedures.
§59-375.1. Short title - Oklahoma Durable Medical Equipment Licensing Act.
§59-375.3. Supplier license – Inspections – Promulgation of rules.
§59-375.5. Application of act.
§59-396. Oklahoma Funeral Board - Appointment - Term - Qualifications.
§59-396.1A. Removal of Board members.
§59-396.1B. Expenses of Board members - Executive director - Other personnel.
§59-396.1C. Executive director of Board - Powers and duties – Collection and disposition of funds.
§59-396.2a. Board - Additional powers and duties.
§59-396.3a. Persons and businesses required to be licensed.
§59-396.5. Expiration of license - Renewal.
§59-396.5b. Continuing education courses.
§59-396.6. License required - Employment of licensed embalmer – Display of license or certificate.
§59-396.8. Reciprocity – Definitions.
§59-396.10. Application - Rules of Board - Publication of changes in rules.
§59-396.11. Apprenticeship - Application - Certificate - Rules.
§59-396.12c. Refusal to issue or renew, revocation or suspension of license – Grounds – Definitions.
§59-396.12d. Violations - Penalties - Liabilities.
§59-396.12e. Administrative penalty and costs - Surrender of license in lieu of penalty.
§59-396.16. Records of Board - Contents - Public inspection.
§59-396.17. Board - Officers - Rules.
§59-396.19. Act inapplicable when.
§59-396.20. Suspicion of crime - Embalming body without permission unlawful.
§59-396.22. Meetings of Board.
§59-396.23. Schools - Privileges.
§59-396.24. Violations - Penalties.
§59-396.26. Partial invalidity.
§59-396.27. Risk of transmission of communicable disease - Precautions.
§59-396.28. Funeral directors and embalmers from other states – Temporary permit.
§59-396.31. Rules for licensing, inspection, and regulation of crematories.
§59-396.32. Residue of cremated body.
§59-396.33. Cremation without license and permit a felony.
§59-475.1. Registration as engineer or land surveyor - Privilege.
§59-475.3. State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
§59-475.4. Qualifications of Board members.
§59-475.6. Removal of Board members - Vacancies.
§59-475.7. Meetings - Officers - Quorum.
§59-475.8. Powers and authority of Board.
§59-475.9. Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Fund - Expenditures - Audits.
§59-475.12a. Licensure or certification as professional engineer.
§59-475.12b. Licensure or certification as professional land surveyor.
§59-475.12c. Qualifications to use title Professional Structural Engineer.
§59-475.13. Application form - Certified council record in lieu of form - Fees.
§59-475.15. Certificate of licensure - Seal - Intern certificate.
§59-475.16. Terms of certificates – Maintaining certificates.
§59-475.17. Lost or destroyed certificates - Replacement.
§59-475.18. Disciplinary actions - Grounds - Rules of Professional Conduct – Definitions.
§59-475.19. Allegations of violations - Notice and hearing - Appeal.
§59-475.20. Criminal and administrative penalties - Legal counsel.
§59-475.21. Condition for practice of engineering or land surveying by firm.
§59-475.22a. Land surveying documents - Conditions of filing.
§59-478.1. Establishment of physician-patient relationship through telemedicine.
§59-480. Short title - Intent - Definitions.
§59-481. State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision - Members.
§59-481.1. Statutory references.
§59-482. Tenure - Appointment list - Persons ineligible.
§59-485. Organization - Officers.
§59-488. Meetings of Board - Determining qualifications of applicants.
§59-489. Rules - Fees - Increasing or changing educational requirements.
§59-490. Administration of oaths - Evidence and witnesses.
§59-491. Practicing without a license - Penalties.
§59-493.1. Contents of application - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.2. Foreign applicants - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.3. Licensure by endorsement - Temporary and special licensure.
§59-493.5. Special volunteer license.
§59-493.5a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-493.6. Enactment of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-493.7. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-494.1. Medical licensure examinations.
§59-495. Issuance of licenses.
§59-495a.1. License reregistration.
§59-495c. Reregistration fees - Depository funds - Disposition.
§59-495d. Suspension in absence of reregistration - Reinstatement.
§59-495e. Appeal from rejection of reregistration.
§59-500. Notice of practice location and address - Proof of licensure.
§59-503. Sanctions for unprofessional conduct.
§59-503.1. Emergency suspension of licensure.
§59-503.2. Authority to prescribe administrative remedies for licensee violations.
§59-504. Process - How served - Depositions - Subpoenas.
§59-505. State as party to actions - Board as trial body - Rulings - Record.
§59-506. Decisions of Board - Suspension and reinstatement - Narcotics conviction.
§59-508. Revocation for fraud, misrepresentation or mistake - Misdemeanor.
§59-508.1. Reinstatement on Board's own motion.
§59-508.2. Reinstatement on application of person whose license is suspended or revoked.
§59-509. Unprofessional conduct - Definition.
§59-509.1. Disciplinary actions.
§59-510. Corporations - Firms - Practice of medicine.
§59-511. Deposit of fees and other monies - Payments from fund - Disposition of balance.
§59-512. Salary of secretary - Personnel - Investigators - Travel expenses.
§59-518. Emergency care or treatment - Immunity from civil damages or criminal prosecution.
§59-518.1. Allied Professional Peer Assistance Program – Committees - Records.
§59-519.3. Physician Assistant Committee - Powers and duties.
§59-519.4. Licensure requirements.
§59-519.7. Temporary approval of a license and application to practice.
§59-519.7a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-519.8. License renewal - Fees.
§59-519.9. Preexisting certificates.
§59-519.10. Violations - Penalties.
§59-519.11. Construction of act.
§59-521.1. Primary care provider.
§59-521.2. Billing and payment.
§59-521.3. Emergency or state or local disaster medical care – Liability immunity.
§59-521.4. Physician supervision required – Practice agreement with delegating physician.
§59-524. Abortion - Infant prematurely born alive - Right to medical treatment.
§59-528. Board - Powers and duties.
§59-529. Athletic Trainers Advisory Committee.
§59-531. Expiration of license - Renewal - License fees.
§59-532. Denial, suspension or revocation of license – Definitions.