CHAPTER 601

H.P. 1432 - L.D. 1933

An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Joint

Standing Committee on Business, Research and Economic

Development Regarding the Board of Licensure in Medicine

Pursuant to Reviews Conducted under the State Government

Evaluation Act

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 24 MRSA §2505, first ¶, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 492, §3, is amended to read:

Any professional competence committee within this State and any physician licensed to practice or otherwise lawfully practicing within this State shall, and any other person may, report the relevant facts to the appropriate board relating to the acts of any physician in this State if, in the opinion of the committee, physician or other person, the committee or individual has reasonable knowledge of acts of the physician amounting to gross or repeated medical malpractice, habitual drunkenness, addiction to the use of drugs or, professional incompetence or sexual misconduct identified by board rule. The failure of any such professional competence committee or any such physician to report as required is a civil violation for which a fine of not more than $1,000 may be adjudged.

Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §3266, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §201, is further amended to read:

§3266. Elections; meetings; seal; expenses

The members of the board shall meet on the 2nd Tuesday of July of the uneven-numbered years at the time and place the board may determine and shall elect a chair and a secretary who shall