37-3-313. Annual registration fees -- failure to pay -- limiting authority to impose registration fees. (1) In addition to the license fees required of applicants, a licensed physician actively practicing medicine in this state shall pay each year to the department an annual registration fee as prescribed by the board.
     (2) The annual payments for registration must be made prior to April 1, and a receipt acknowledging payment of the annual registration fee must be issued by the department. The department shall mail registration notices at least 60 days before the registration is due.
     (3) In case of default in the payment of the annual registration fee by a person licensed to practice medicine who is actively practicing medicine in this state, the underlying certificate to practice medicine may be revoked by the board on 30 days' notice given to the delinquent of the time and place of considering the revocation. A registered or certified letter addressed to the last-known address of the person failing to comply with the requirements of annual registration, as the address appears on the records of the department, constitutes sufficient notice of intention to revoke the underlying certificate. A certificate may not be revoked for nonpayment if the person authorized to practice medicine, and notified, pays the annual registration fee before or at the time fixed for consideration of revocation, together with a delinquency penalty prescribed by the board. The department may collect the dues by an action at law.
     (4) A registration or license fee may not be imposed on a licensee under this chapter by a municipality or any other subdivision of the state.

     History: En. Sec. 33, Ch. 338, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 110, Ch. 350, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 533, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1042; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 345, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 25, Ch. 429, L. 1995.