062-12 Wyo. Code R. §§ 12-4 - Summary Suspension
(a) An IC may
recommend that the Board summarily suspend a license or certificate at any time
when the IC or Board staff believes that the license or certificate holder's
continued practice imperatively requires emergency action to protect the public
health, safety, or welfare.
(b) The
IC shall notify the license or certificate holder of its intent to recommend
summary suspension. The Notice of Intent shall contain:
(i) A copy of the complaint, if
any;
(ii) A description of the
grounds for the summary suspension recommendation; and
(iii) Notice that an expedited summary
suspension proceeding shall be set at the earliest opportunity a quorum of
Board members may be assembled.
(c) When the date and time of the summary
suspension hearing is set, the Board staff shall notify the license or
certificate holder of the date and time of the proceeding by mailing written
notice and emailing electronic notice to the license or certificate holder'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 license or certificate holder may present on his or her
behalf.
(e) Hearing Format.
(i) The IC shall describe the allegations
that it believes warrant emergency action against the license or certificate
holder.
(ii) The IC shall present
information that demonstrates probable cause that the allegations are
true.
(iii) The IC shall explain
why the license or certificate holder's continued practice imperatively
requires emergency action to protect the public health, safety, or
welfare.
(iv) The license or
certificate holder, if present, may present any information demonstrating that
the allegations are not true or that, even if the allegations are true, the
license or certificate holder's continued practice does not imperatively
require emergency action to protect the public health, safety, or
welfare.
(f) The Board
may order summary suspension if it concludes that probable cause exists that
the allegations are true and that the license or certificate holder'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 (7) days after the proceeding.
The Board shall send the order to the license or certificate holder by U.S.
mail and by email.
(j)
Post-Deprivation Hearing.
(i) A license or
certificate holder may request a post-deprivation hearing within ten (10) days
from the date the summary suspension order is entered.
(ii) If a license or certificate holder
requests a post-deprivation hearing, the Board shall conduct it within thirty
(30) days of the license or certificate holder's request and notify the license
or certificate holder of the date, time, and location of the hearing.
(iii) Post-deprivation hearings shall be
conducted in the same manner as summary suspension proceedings as articulated
in Section 4(e) of this chapter. The sole issue before the Board at a
post-deprivation hearing shall be whether the IC's allegations imperatively
require emergency action to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. The
Board shall affirm its decision to summarily suspend a license or certificate,
and issue a written order to that effect, if it concludes that the IC has
proven the allegations by a preponderance of the evidence and that the
allegations imperatively require emergency action to protect the public health,
safety, or welfare.
(k)
Unless earlier terminated by the Board or a petition for discipline is filed
under Section 6 of this chapter, summary suspensions shall lapse 180 days after
the written order granting summary suspension is entered under subsection (h)
of this section.
Notes
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