In carrying out its responsibility to insure strict enforcement of the Interior Designers' Registration Law (the Act), the Board may investigate circumstances which appear to violate or abridge the requirements of the Act or the rules dealing with the practice of Interior Design and the use of the title "registered interior designer." Violations of the Act or the rules which cannot be readily resolved through settlement shall be disposed of by administrative, civil, or criminal proceedings as authorized by law.
22 Tex. Admin. Code § 5.131