Administrative Rules of the State of Montana

(1) Renewal notices will be sent as specified in ARM 24.101.414.

(2) All licensees will renew for a period of two years.

(3) A physician actively engaged in the practice of medicine with an active license shall pay a license renewal fee. If the physician does not pay the license renewal fee and return the required renewal before the date set by ARM 24.101.413, the physician must pay the late penalty fee specified in ARM 24.101.403 in order to renew the physician's license.

(4) A physician with a permanent license not actively engaged in the practice of medicine in this state or absent from this state for a period of one or more years may renew as an inactive licensee and pay the inactive fee listed in ARM 24.156.601.

(5) A physician with a permanent license not engaged in the practice of medicine and who has retired from practice may renew this license as an inactive-retired licensee and pay the fee listed in ARM 24.156.601. A retired license may not be reactivated. The individual must reapply for a new original license.

(6) The provisions of ARM 24.101.408 apply.

History: 37-1-131, 37-1-134, 37-3-203, MCA; IMP, 37-1-131, 37-1-134, 37-1-141, 37-3-313, MCA; NEW, Eff. 3/7/76; AMD, 1979 MAR p. 40, Eff. 1/26/79; TRANS, from Dept. of Prof. & Occup. Lic., Ch. 274, L. 1981, Eff. 7/1/81; AMD, 1982 MAR p. 1389, Eff. 7/16/82; AMD, 1982 MAR p. 1739, Eff. 10/1/82; AMD, 1985 MAR p. 687, Eff. 6/14/85; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 395, Eff. 3/31/89; AMD, 1990 MAR p. 1700, Eff. 8/31/90; AMD, 1995 MAR p. 2480, Eff. 11/23/95; TRANS, from Commerce, 2001 MAR p. 1471; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 1583, Eff. 7/1/06; AMD, 2007 MAR p. 505, Eff. 4/27/07; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 1187, Eff. 5/14/10.