Texas Occupations Code 565.051 – Discipline Authorized
Terms Used In Texas Occupations Code 565.051
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
On a determination that a ground for discipline exists under Subchapter A, or that a violation of this subtitle or a rule adopted under this subtitle has been committed by a license holder or applicant for a license or renewal of a license, the board may:
(1) suspend the person‘s license;
(2) revoke the person’s license;
(3) restrict the person’s license to prohibit the person from performing certain acts or from practicing pharmacy or operating a pharmacy in a particular manner for a term and under conditions determined by the board;
(4) impose an administrative penalty under Chapter 566;
(5) refuse to issue or renew the person’s license;
(6) place the offender’s license on probation and supervision by the board for a period determined by the board and impose a requirement that the license holder:
(A) report regularly to the board on matters that are the basis of the probation;
(B) limit practice to the areas prescribed by the board;
(C) continue or review professional education until the license holder attains a degree of skill satisfactory to the board in each area that is the basis of the probation; or
(D) pay the board a probation fee to defray the costs of monitoring the license holder during the period of probation;
(7) reprimand the person;
(8) retire the person’s license as provided by board rule; or
(9) impose more than one of the sanctions listed in this subsection.