Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 056 - Optometry, Board of Examiners in
Sub-Agency 0001 - Optometry, Board of Examiners in
Chapter 10 - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES FOR DISCIPLINE MATTERS
Section 10-4 - Summary Suspension
Current through December 21, 2024
(a) An IC may recommend that the Board summarily suspend a license at any time when the IC or Board staff believes that the licensee's continued practice imperatively requires emergency action to protect the public health, safety, or welfare.
(b) The IC shall notify the licensee of its intent to recommend summary suspension. The Notice of Intent shall contain:
(c) When the date and time of the summary suspension hearing is set, the Board staff shall notify the licensee of the date and time of the proceeding by mailing written notice and emailing electronic notice to the licensee's mailing and email addresses.
(d) The scope of the expedited summary suspension proceeding shall be limited to a presentation of the information the IC believes warrants summary suspension and any information the licensee may present on his or her behalf.
(e) Hearing Format.
(f) The Board may order summary suspension if it concludes that probable cause exists that the allegations are true and that the licensee's continued practice imperatively requires emergency action to protect the public health, safety, or welfare. The Board shall incorporate a finding to that effect in its order granting summary suspension.
(g) No summary suspension shall be effective until the Board has adopted a written order incorporating the reasons justifying its decision.
(h) The Board shall enter a written order granting or denying summary suspension at the summary suspension proceeding or within seven days after the proceeding. The Board shall send the order to the licensee by U.S. mail and by email.
(i) Post-Deprivation Hearing.
(j) Unless earlier terminated by the Board or a petition for discipline is filed under Section 6 of this chapter, summary suspensions shall lapse one hundred eighty (180) days after the written order granting summary suspension is entered under subsection (h) of this section.