Grounds. The following acts, conduct, omissions, or mental or physical conditions, or any of them, committed, engaged in, omitted, or being suffered by a licensee, constitute sufficient cause for disciplinary action:
1. Affliction of the licensee with any communicable disease likely to be communicated to other persons.
2. Commission by the licensee of a felony relating to the practice of optometry or a gross misdemeanor involving moral turpitude of which he has been convicted and from which he has been sentenced by a final judgment of a federal or state court in this or any other state, the judgment not having been reversed or vacated by a competent appellate court and the offense not having been pardoned by executive authority.
3. Conviction of any of the provisions of NRS 616D.200, 616D.220, 616D.240 or 616D.300 to 616D.440, inclusive.
4. Commission of fraud by or on behalf of the licensee in obtaining his license or a renewal thereof, or in practicing optometry thereunder.
5. Habitual drunkenness or addiction to any controlled substance.
6. Gross incompetency.
7. Affliction with any mental or physical disorder or disturbance seriously impairing his competency as an optometrist.
8. Making false or misleading representations, by or on behalf of the licensee, with respect to optometric materials or services.
9. Practice by the licensee, or attempting or offering so to do, while he is in an intoxicated condition.
10. Perpetration of unethical or unprofessional conduct in the practice of optometry.
11. Any violation of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
Last modified: February 27, 2006