Kentucky Statutes 327.025 – Obligation to report concerning practitioner’s qualifications to practice
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Any physical therapist, physical therapist’s assistant, or employer of physical therapy practitioners having knowledge of facts by actual or direct knowledge shall report to the board of physical therapy a physical therapist or physical therapist’s assistant who:
(1) Has been convicted of a felony that involved acts that bear directly on the qualifications or ability of the applicant, licensee, or certificate holder to practice physical therapy;
(2) Is suspected of fraud or deceit in procuring or attempting to procure a license to practice physical therapy or of negligently performing actions that justify action against a physical therapist or physical therapist’s assistant’s license as identified in KRS § 327.070(2);
(3) Has had a license to practice as a physical therapist or a certificate as a physical therapist’s assistant denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in another jurisdiction on grounds sufficient to cause a license or certificate to be denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in this Commonwealth; or
(4) Is practicing physical therapy without a current active license, certificate, or valid temporary permit issued by the board.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 313, sec. 2, effective July 14, 2000.
(1) Has been convicted of a felony that involved acts that bear directly on the qualifications or ability of the applicant, licensee, or certificate holder to practice physical therapy;
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 327.025
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Board: means the Board of Physical Therapy established by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 327.010
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Physical therapist: means a professional person who has met the educational requirements of this chapter and who is licensed to practice physical therapy pursuant to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 327.010
- Physical therapy: means the use of selected knowledge and skills in planning, organizing, and directing programs for the care of individuals whose ability to function is impaired or threatened by disease or injury, encompassing preventive measures, screening, tests in aid of diagnosis by a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, chiropractic, or podiatry and evaluation and invasive or noninvasive procedures with emphasis on the skeletal system, neuromuscular and cardiopulmonary function, as it relates to physical therapy. See Kentucky Statutes 327.010
- Temporary permit: means a permit granted to an individual who has met all requirements in Kentucky for license application by examination and has made application for examination but who has not yet successfully completed the board approved examination in this or another state. See Kentucky Statutes 327.010
(2) Is suspected of fraud or deceit in procuring or attempting to procure a license to practice physical therapy or of negligently performing actions that justify action against a physical therapist or physical therapist’s assistant’s license as identified in KRS § 327.070(2);
(3) Has had a license to practice as a physical therapist or a certificate as a physical therapist’s assistant denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in another jurisdiction on grounds sufficient to cause a license or certificate to be denied, limited, suspended, probated, or revoked in this Commonwealth; or
(4) Is practicing physical therapy without a current active license, certificate, or valid temporary permit issued by the board.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 313, sec. 2, effective July 14, 2000.