Ohio Code 4778.16 – Mentally incompetent licensees
If the state medical board has reason to believe that any person who has been granted a license to practice as a genetic counselor under this chapter is mentally ill or mentally incompetent, it may file in the probate court of the county in which the person has a legal residence an affidavit in the form prescribed in section 5122.11 of the Revised Code and signed by the board secretary or a member of the board secretary’s staff, whereupon the same proceedings shall be had as provided in Chapter 5122 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may represent the board in any proceeding commenced under this section.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4778.16
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Genetic counselor: means an individual who engages in any of the activities authorized under section 4778. See Ohio Code 4778.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Probate: Proving a will
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
If any person who has been granted a license to practice is adjudged by a probate court to be mentally ill or mentally incompetent, the person’s license shall be automatically suspended until the person has filed with the state medical board a certified copy of an adjudication by a probate court of the person’s subsequent restoration to competency or has submitted to the board proof, satisfactory to the board, that the person has been discharged as having a restoration to competency in the manner and form provided in section 5122.38 of the Revised Code. The judge of the probate court shall forthwith notify the state medical board of an adjudication of mental illness or mental incompetence, and shall note any suspension of a license in the margin of the court’s record of such license.