32-1436. Fees and penalty


A. The board shall by a formal vote, at its annual fall meeting, establish
nonrefundable fees and penalties that do not exceed the following:


1. For processing an application for an active license, seven hundred dollars.


2. For issuance of an active license, seven hundred dollars.


3. For an application to reactivate an inactive status license, five hundred
dollars.


4. For issuance of a duplicate license, fifty dollars.


5. For renewal of an active license, seven hundred dollars.


6. For late renewal of an active license, an eight hundred dollar penalty.


7. For annual registration of an approved internship, residency, clinical
fellowship program or short-term residency program, fifty dollars.


8. For an annual teaching license at an approved school of medicine or at an
approved teaching hospital's accredited graduate medical education program, four hundred
dollars.


9. For a five day educational teaching permit at an approved school of medicine or
at an approved teaching hospital's accredited graduate medical education program, one
hundred dollars.


10. For locum tenens registration, five hundred dollars.


11. For the sale of those copies of the annual medical directory that are not
distributed free of charge, thirty dollars.


12. For the sale of the annual medical directory on CD-ROM, one hundred dollars.


13. For the sale of computerized tapes or diskettes not requiring programming, one
hundred dollars.


14. For verification of a license, ten dollars.


15. For a copy of the minutes to board meetings during the current calendar year,
twenty-five dollars for each set of minutes.


16. For copying records, documents, letters, minutes, applications and files, one
dollar for the first three pages and twenty-five cents for each additional page.


17. For initial and annual registration to dispense drugs and devices, two hundred
dollars.


18. For renewal applications that the board returns to the licensee for proper
completion, a fee that does not exceed the cost of processing the incomplete application.


B. The board shall charge additional fees for services that are not required to be
provided by this chapter but that the board deems necessary and appropriate to carry out
its intent and purpose, except that these fees shall not exceed the actual cost of
providing those services.


C. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, the board may return the license
renewal fee on special request.


D. The board shall provide computerized tapes or diskettes free to the management
information systems office of the Arizona health care cost containment system.


E. The fee for minutes provided pursuant to this section includes postage. Annual
subscription requests and fees for minutes shall be paid before February 1 of each
year. Subscriptions for minutes of board meetings are not available for past years.


F. The fee for copying provided in this section includes postage. Copying fees for
subpoenaed records shall be as prescribed in section 12-351.


G. The board may collect from the drawer of a dishonored check, draft order or note
an amount allowed pursuant to section 44-6852.