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59 O.S. § 485 Organization - Officers
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The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall elect a president and a vice-president each year. If either office becomes vacant during that year, an election to fill the vacancy shall be held at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board. Added by Laws 1923, c…
59 O.S. § 487 Secretary - Duties
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A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may appoint a Board secretary to carry out the statutory duties of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act. The Board may hire the secretary as an employee of the Board at such hours of emp…
59 O.S. § 488 Meetings of Board - Determining qualifications of
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applicants. A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may hold regular meetings at times to be fixed by the president and secretary of the Board in accordance with the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. In addition, the president and secretary may call suc…
59 O.S. § 489 Rules - Fees - Increasing or changing educational
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requirements. The Board shall from time to time adopt such rules as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and shall have authority to establish fees not otherwise provided for in this act; and from time to time, as the courses of instruction in medical…
59 O.S. § 490 Administration of oaths - Evidence and witnesses
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Any member of the Board shall have the authority to administer oaths in all matters pertaining to the affairs of the Board and to take evidence and compel the attendance of witnesses on questions pertaining to the enforcement of this act. The trial examiner of the Board shall hav…
59 O.S. § 491 Practicing without a license - Penalties
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A. 1. Every person before practicing medicine and surgery or any of the branches or departments of medicine and surgery, within the meaning of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act, the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act, or the Oklahoma Interv…
59 O.S. § 492 Designation of physicians - Employment by hospitals -
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Practice of medicine defined - Services rendered by trained assistants - Persons practicing nonallopathic healing. A. Every person shall be regarded as practicing allopathic medicine within the meaning and provisions of this act, who shall append to his or her name the letters "M…
59 O.S. § 492.1 Application forms - Requirements for practicing medicine
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- Agent or representative of applicant. A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall create such application forms as are necessary for the licensure of applicants to practice medicine and surgery in this state. B. No person shall be licensed to practice medicine…
59 O.S. § 493.1 Contents of application - Requirements for licensure
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A. An applicant to practice medicine and surgery in this state shall provide to the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision and attest to the following information and documentation in a manner required by the Board: 1. The applicant’s full name and all aliases or other …
59 O.S. § 493.2 See the following versions:
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OS 59-493.2v1 (HB 2050, Laws 2025, c. 61, § 1) OS 59-493.2v2 (SB 443, Laws 2025, c. 350, § 3)
59 O.S. § 493.2v1 Foreign applicants - Requirements for licensure
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A. Unless otherwise provided by this section, foreign applicants and international medical school graduate applicants shall otherwise meet all requirements for full and unrestricted licensure as provided in Sections 492.1 and 493.1 of this title. B. 1. A foreign applicant for ful…
59 O.S. § 493.2v2 Foreign applicants - Requirements for licensure
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A. Foreign applicants shall meet all requirements for licensure as provided in Sections 492.1 and 493.1 of this title. B. 1. A foreign applicant shall possess the degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent approved by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision based …
59 O.S. § 493.3 Licensure by endorsement - Temporary and special
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licensure. A. Endorsement of licensed applicants: The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may issue a license by endorsement to an applicant who: 1. Has complied with all current medical licensure requirements except those for examination; and 2. Has passed a medical…
59 O.S. § 493.4 Special licenses
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A. No person who is granted a special license or a special training license shall practice outside the limitations of the license. B. To be eligible for special or special training licensure, the applicant shall have completed all the requirements for full and unrestricted medica…
59 O.S. § 493.5 Special volunteer license
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A. 1. There is established a special volunteer license for eligible volunteers from a medically related field who are retired from active practice or actively licensed in another state and practicing in that state and wish to donate their expertise for the care and treatment of i…
59 O.S. § 493.5a Temporary critical need license
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The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may issue temporary critical need licenses for allopathic physicians under Section 1 of this act. Added by Laws 2022, c. 262, § 2, eff. July 1, 2022.
59 O.S. § 493.6 Enactment of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
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The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact is hereby enacted into law and the Governor shall enter into a compact on behalf of the State of Oklahoma with any jurisdiction legally joined therein, in the form substantially as set forth in Section 2 of this act. Added by Laws 2019, c.…
59 O.S. § 493.7 Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
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INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT Section 1. PURPOSE In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a compre…
59 O.S. § 493.8 Criminal history background check
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A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision is authorized to obtain a national criminal history background check on physician applicants seeking a letter of qualification for purposes of registration for expedited licensure through the Interstate Medical Licensure Com…
59 O.S. § 494.1 Medical licensure examinations
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A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall offer a medical licensure examination as necessary to test the qualifications of applicants. 1. Except as otherwise provided, no person shall receive a license to practice medicine and surgery in this state unless he o…
59 O.S. § 495 Issuance of licenses
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When an applicant shall have shown that he or she is qualified as herein required, a license, in form approved by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision and attested by the seal of the Board, shall be issued to the applicant by the Board, authorizing the applicant t…
59 O.S. § 495a.1 License reregistration
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A. At regular intervals set by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, no less than one time per annum, each licensee licensed by the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act shall demonstrate to the Board the licensee's continuing qual…
59 O.S. § 495b Practice without renewal license prohibited - Punishment
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- Revocation or suspension of license. Any person practicing medicine and surgery in Oklahoma as defined by law without having the legal possession of a current renewal license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than One Thousan…
59 O.S. § 495c Reregistration fees - Depository funds - Disposition
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A. Each application for reregistration, as set forth in Section 20 of this act, shall be accompanied by a reregistration fee in an amount fixed by the Board. B. All reregistration fees paid to the secretary of the Board under the provisions of this act shall be deposited with the…
59 O.S. § 495d Suspension in absence of reregistration - Reinstatement
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If a licensee fails to apply for reregistration within sixty (60) days from the end of the previous registration period, as provided in this act, his original license to practice medicine and surgery in this state shall be suspended and the Board shall report to the office of the…
59 O.S. § 495e Appeal from rejection of reregistration
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Any licensee whose reregistration application is rejected by the Board, shall have the right to appeal from such action to the district court of the county of residence. If the licensee does not reside or practice in Oklahoma, appeal shall be to the Oklahoma County District Court…
59 O.S. § 495h Reinstatement of license or certificate - Satisfactory
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evidence of professional competence. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may require satisfactory evidence of professional competence and good moral character from applicants requesting reinstatement of any license or certificate issued by the Board. The Board ma…
59 O.S. § 495i Physician Preceptor Tax Credit Revolving Fund
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There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to be designated the “Physician Preceptor Tax Credit Revolving Fund”. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall con…
59 O.S. § 497 Duplicate licenses
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The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision is hereby authorized to issue a duplicate license to any licensee of this state, who may have lost his license except through suspension, failure to renew, revocation or denial; provided, that the application, properly verified…
59 O.S. § 500 Notice of practice location and address - Proof of
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licensure. Each person holding a license authorizing the practice of medicine and surgery in this state shall notify the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, in writing, of such licensee’s current practice location and mailing address. Each licensee shall carry on hi…
59 O.S. § 503 Sanctions for unprofessional conduct
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The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may suspend, revoke or order any other appropriate sanctions against the license of any physician or surgeon holding a license to practice in this state for unprofessional conduct, but no such suspension, revocation or other pe…
59 O.S. § 503.1 Emergency suspension of licensure
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The Secretary of the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, upon concurrence of the President of the Board that an emergency exists for which the immediate suspension of a license is imperative for the public health, safety and welfare, may conduct a hearing as contemp…
59 O.S. § 503.2 Authority to prescribe administrative remedies for
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licensee violations. A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may promulgate rules to create administrative remedies for licensee violations of statutory or regulatory prescribed unprofessional conduct. B. The Board is authorized to prescribe by rule administrative…
59 O.S. § 504 Process - How served - Depositions - Subpoenas
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All citations and subpoenas, under the contemplation of this act, shall be served in general accordance with the statutes of the State of Oklahoma then in force applying to the service of such documents, and all provisions of the statutes of the state then in force, relating to c…
59 O.S. § 505 State as party to actions - Board as trial body - Rulings
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- Record. It is hereby provided that the State of Oklahoma is a proper and necessary party in the prosecution of all such actions and hearings before the Board in all matters pertaining to unprofessional conduct under the contemplation of this act, and the Attorney General of the…
59 O.S. § 506 Decisions of Board - Suspension and reinstatement -
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Narcotics conviction. A. If it is the decision of the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, after considering all the testimony presented, that the defendant is guilty as charged, the Board shall revoke the license of the defendant, and the defendant's rights to pract…
59 O.S. § 508 Revocation for fraud, misrepresentation or mistake -
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Misdemeanor. A. Whenever any license has been procured or obtained by fraud or misrepresentation on the licensure application, or was issued by mistake; or if the diploma of graduation in medicine and surgery or any other credentials required as necessary to the admission to the …
59 O.S. § 508.1 Reinstatement on Board's own motion
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At any time after the Board has revoked or suspended the license to practice medicine or surgery of any person, the Board, upon its own motion and of its own authority and right, may reconsider such order and decision for any reason deemed by it to be sufficient and may, in its d…
59 O.S. § 508.2 Reinstatement on application of person whose license is
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suspended or revoked. A. At any time after the expiration of twelve (12) months from the date the license of any person to practice medicine or surgery has been revoked with right to reapply, or at any time after the expiration of six (6) months from the date the license of any p…
59 O.S. § 509 Unprofessional conduct - Definition
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The words “unprofessional conduct” as used in Sections 481 through 518.1 of this title are hereby declared to include, but shall not be limited to, the following: 1. Procuring, aiding or abetting a criminal operation; 2. The obtaining of any fee or offering to accept any fee, pre…
59 O.S. § 509.1 Disciplinary actions
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A. RANGE OF ACTIONS: The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may impose disciplinary actions in accordance with the severity of violation of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act. Disciplinary actions may include, but are not limi…
59 O.S. § 510.1 Guidance to allopathic physicians for recommending
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medical marijuana – Disciplinary action. A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision is hereby authorized to issue guidance to all allopathic physicians in this state on the recommending of medical marijuana to patients. B. The Board may take disciplinary action as pr…
59 O.S. § 511 Deposit of fees and other monies - Payments from fund -
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Disposition of balance. All monies accruing to the Board from fees herein provided for, and from all other sources whatsoever, shall be received by the secretary who shall make deposit thereof with the State Treasurer, who shall place the same in a designated depository fund to t…
59 O.S. § 512 Salary of secretary - Personnel - Investigators - Travel
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expenses. A. The Secretary of the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall be paid an annual salary in an amount fixed by the Board. The Board shall have the authority to expend such funds as are necessary in carrying out the duties of the Board and shall have the a…
59 O.S. § 513 Quasi-judicial powers of Board - Appeals to Supreme Court
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- Revocation on conviction of felony - Fugitive from justice. A. 1. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision is hereby given quasi-judicial powers while sitting as a Board for the purpose of revoking, suspending, or imposing other disciplinary actions upon the license…
59 O.S. § 514 Partial invalidity
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In the event any of the provisions of this act shall be held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the enforcement of the other provisions hereof. Laws 1923, c. 59, p. 112, § 34.
59 O.S. § 518 Emergency care or treatment - Immunity from civil damages
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or criminal prosecution. No person who is a licensed practitioner of a healing art in the State of Oklahoma, who in good faith renders emergency care or treatment at the scene of the emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such per…
59 O.S. § 518.1 Allied Professional Peer Assistance Program – Committees
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- Records. A. There is hereby established the Allied Professional Peer Assistance Program to rehabilitate allied medical professionals whose competency may be compromised because of the abuse of drugs or alcohol, so that such allied medical professionals can be treated and can re…
59 O.S. § 519.1 Short title
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The provisions of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Physician Assistant Act". Added by Laws 1993, c. 289, § 1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1993.
59 O.S. § 519.10 Violations - Penalties
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Any person not licensed under the Physician Assistant Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to penalties applicable to the unlicensed practice of medicine if he or she: 1. Holds himself or herself out as a physician assistant; 2. Uses any combination or abbreviation of th…