North Carolina § 90-13 - 2. Registration every year with Board.

§ 90-13. 2. Registration every year with Board.

Every licensee shall register annually with the Board no later than 30 days after the person's birthday. A person who registers with the Board shall report to the Board the person's name and office and residence address and any other information required by the Board, and shall pay an annual registration fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), except those who have a limited license to practice in a medical education and training program approved by the Board for the purpose of education or training shall pay a registration fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00), and those who have a retired limited volunteer license pursuant to G.S. 90-12.1B or a limited volunteer license pursuant to G.S. 90-12.1A shall pay no annual registration fee. However, licensees who have a limited license to practice for the purpose of education and training under G.S. 90-12.01 shall not be required to pay more than one annual registration fee for each year of training. Repealed by Session Laws 2016-117, s. 2(i), effective October 1, 2016. A licensee who is not actively engaged in the performance of medical acts, tasks, or functions in North Carolina and who does not wish to register the license may direct the Board to place the license on inactive status. A physician who fails to register as required by this section shall pay an additional fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) to the Board. The license of any physician who fails to register and who remains unregistered for a period of 30 days after certified notice of the failure is automatically inactive. The Board shall retain jurisdiction over the holder of the inactive license. Except as provided in G.S. 90-12.1B, a person whose license is inactive shall not practice medicine in North Carolina nor be required to pay the annual registration fee. Upon payment of all accumulated fees and penalties, the license of the licensee may be reinstated, subject to the Board requiring the licensee to appear before the Board for an interview and to comply with other licensing requirements. The penalty may not exceed the applicable maximum fee for a license under G.S. 90-13.1. The Board shall not deny a licensee's annual registration based solely on the licensee's failure to become board certified. History (1957, c. 597; 1969, c. 929, s. 5; 1979, c. 196, s. 2; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1063, s. 2; 1987, c. 859, s. 12; 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 566, s. 1; 1995, c. 94, s. 16; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 634, s. 1(a); 1997-481, s. 3; 2000-5, s. 3; 2001-493, s. 3; 2005-402, s. 6; 2007-346, s. 7; 2007-418, s. 9; 2011-355, s. 6; 2016-117, s. 2(i); 2019-191, s. 25.) Editor's Note. - This section is former G.S. 90-15.1 , recodified as G.S. 90-13.2 , effective October 1, 2007, by Session Laws 2007-346, s. 7. Session Laws 2020-3, s. 3A.1(a), provides: "Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply in this Part: "(1) CDC. - The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "(2) COVID-19. - Coronavirus disease 2019. "(3) COVID-19 diagnostic test. - A test the federal Food and Drug Administration has authorized for emergency use or approved to detect the presence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. "(4) COVID-19 emergency. - The period beginning March 10, 2020, and ending on the date the Governor signs an executive order rescinding Executive Order No. 116, Declaration of a State of Emergency to Coordinate Response and Protective Actions to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19. "(5) COVID-19 antibody test. - A serological blood test the federal Food and Drug Administration has authorized for emergency use or approved to measure the amount of antibodies or proteins present in the blood when the body is responding to an infection caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 3D.5(a)-(e), as amended by Session Laws 2021-3, s. 2.17, provides: "(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: "(1) Quality improvement plan rules. - The rules regulating the quality improvement process for physician assistants and nurse practitioners found in 21 NCAC 32S.0213, 21 NCAC 32M.0110, and 21 NCAC 36.0810. "(2) Application fee rules. - The portions of rules found in 21 NCAC 32S.0204, 21 NCAC 32M.0115, and 21 NCAC 36.0813 that require the payment of an application fee. "(3) Annual review rules. - The portions of rules requiring the annual review or renewal of a practice arrangement between a physician and a physician assistant or nurse practitioner found in 21 NCAC 32S.0201, 21 NCAC 32M.0110, and 21 NCAC 36.0806. "(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, neither the North Carolina Medical Board nor the North Carolina Board of Nursing shall enforce any provision of the quality improvement plan rules to the extent they require any of the following: "(1) Quality improvement process meetings between a physician and a physician assistant or nurse practitioner, provided that the physician assistant or nurse practitioner was practicing within the scope of his or her license prior to February 1, 2020, and continues to practice within the scope of his or her license while this section is effective. "(2) Monthly quality improvement process meetings between a physician and a physician assistant or nurse practitioner during the first six months of the practice arrangement between the physician and the physician assistant or nurse practitioner. "(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, neither the North Carolina Medical Board nor the North Carolina Board of Nursing shall enforce any provision of the quality improvement plan rules or the application fee rules to the extent they require any individual to fill out an application or pay a fee, provided that individual is providing volunteer health care services within the scope of his or her license in response to the COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency declared by the Governor of North Carolina on March 10, 2020. "(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, neither the North Carolina Medical Board nor the North Carolina Board of Nursing shall enforce any provision of the annual review rules. "(e) This section is effective when it becomes law and expires December 31, 2022." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 5, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2001-493, s. 3, effective January 1, 2002, in the second sentence, substituted "fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00)" for "fee fixed by the Board not in excess of one hundred dollars ($100.00)." Session Laws 2005-402, s. 6, effective September 19, 2005, substituted "one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00) ... twenty five dollars ($25.00)" for "one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00)" in the second sentence; and substituted "fifty dollars ($50.00)" for "twenty dollars ($20.00)" in the fifth sentence. Session Laws 2007-418, s. 9, effective October 1, 2007, designated the existing provisions as present subsections (a) through (g), and in subsection (b), substituted "an annual" for "a" preceding "registration fee" and inserted the last sentence; added the last sentence in subsection (e); substituted "90-12.1A" for "90-12(d)" in subsection (f); substituted "90-13.1" for "90-13" in subsection (g). Session Laws 2011-355, s. 6, effective June 27, 2011, in the first sentence of subsection (b), inserted "retired" and "pursuant to G.S. 90-12.1 B," and added "and those who have a limited volunteer license pursuant to G.S. 90-12.1 A shall pay no annual registration fee"; and in subsection (f), updated the section reference. Session Laws 2016-117, s. 2(i), effective October 1, 2016, in subsection (b), substituted "two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)" for "one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00)," substituted "or" for "shall pay an annual registration fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and those who have," and made a stylistic change; deleted former subsection (c), which read: "A physician who is not actively engaged in the practice of medicine in North Carolina and who does not wish to register the license may direct the Board to place the license on inactive status."; and added subsection (h). Session Laws 2019-191, s. 25, effective October 1, 2019, substituted "licensee" for "physician" in subsections (d) and (g); rewrote subsection (a), which formerly read: "Every person licensed to practice medicine by the North Carolina Medical Board shall register annually with the Board within 30 days of the person's birthday"; substituted "performance of medical acts, tasks, or functions" for "practice of medicine" in subsection (d); and inserted "applicable" in the second sentence of subsection (g). Legal Periodicals. - For 1997 legislative survey, see 20 Campbell L. Rev. 469 (1998).