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Title 26 : Professions and Occupations

Chapter 053 : Polygraph Examiners

(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 2908)
  • § 2908. Refusal, suspension, revocation

    The Commissioner may, pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter 25, refuse to issue or may suspend or revoke a license on any one or more of the following grounds:

    (1) failure to inform a subject to be examined as to the nature of the examination;

    (2) failure to inform a subject to be examined that his or her participation in the examination is voluntary;

    (3) making a material misstatement in the application for original license or in the application for any renewal license;

    (4) willful disregard or violation of this chapter or of any regulation or rule issued hereunder, including willfully making a false report concerning an examination for polygraph examination purposes;

    (5) conviction of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;

    (6) making any willful misrepresentation or false promises or causing to be printed any false or misleading advertisement for the purpose of directly or indirectly obtaining business;

    (7) having demonstrated unworthiness or incompetency to act as a polygraph examiner as defined by this chapter;

    (8) allowing one’s license under this chapter to be used by any unlicensed person in violation of the provisions of this chapter;

    (9) willfully aiding or abetting another in the violation of this chapter or any regulation or rule issued pursuant thereto;

    (10) being adjudged as mentally incompetent by any court of this or any other state;

    (11) failing, within a reasonable time, to provide information requested by the Commissioner of Public Safety as the result of a formal complaint to him or her that would indicate a violation of this chapter; or

    (12) failing to inform the subject of the results of the examination if so requested. (Added 1975, No. 110.)