The Board of Examiners may cancel, revoke, suspend, or limit the license, resident license, or certificate of any physician or surgeon issued under this chapter upon satisfactory proof by a preponderance of the evidence in compliance with chapter 1-26 of such a licensee's, resident licensee's, or certificate holder's professional incompetence, or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, or proof of a violation of this chapter in any respect. However, the board may not base a finding of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct solely on the basis that a licensee, resident licensee, or certificate holder practices chelation therapy. For the purposes of this section, professional incompetence is a deviation from the statewide standard of competence, which is that minimum degree of skill and knowledge necessary for the performance of characteristic tasks of a physician or surgeon in at least a reasonably effective way.

Source: SDC 1939, § 27.0306; SL 1949, ch 106 , § 9; SL 1957, ch 116 ; SDC Supp 1960, § 27.0310; SL 1969, ch 105 , § 3; SL 1985, ch 297 , § 18; SL 1992, ch 265 , § 3; SL 1993, ch 272 ; SL 2004, ch 243 , § 1; SL 2009, ch 178 , § 9; SL 2013, ch 172 , § 10.