Missouri § 330.110 - Board of podiatric medicine — appointment — terms — compensation — qualifications.

§ 330.110. Board of podiatric medicine — appointment — terms — compensation — qualifications.

1.  The board shall be composed of five members including one voting public member, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Vacancies on the board shall be filled in like manner.  The term of office of each member shall be four years.  Each member of the board shall receive as compensation an amount set by the board not to exceed seventy dollars for each day devoted to the affairs of the board, and shall be entitled to reimbursement of the member's expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of the member's official duties.  All members of the board, except the public member, shall be doctors of surgical podiatric medicine duly registered and licensed pursuant to the laws of this state, shall be United States citizens, shall have been residents of this state for at least one year next preceding their appointment and shall have been engaged in the lawful and ethical practice of podiatric medicine for a period of not less than five years.  Not more than two of the podiatrists shall belong to the same political party.  Members of the board shall not be directly or indirectly interested in any podiatric medical college or the podiatric medical department of any institution of higher learning or in any podiatric medical supply or shoe business.  The president of the Missouri Podiatric Medical Association in office at the time shall, at least ninety days prior to the expiration of the term of a board member, other than the public member, or as soon as feasible after a vacancy on the board otherwise occurs, submit to the director of the division of professional registration a list of five doctors of surgical podiatric medicine qualified and willing to fill the vacancy in question, with the request and recommendation that the governor appoint one of the five persons so listed, and with the list so submitted, the president of the Missouri Podiatric Medical Association shall include in his or her letter of transmittal a description of the method by which the names were chosen by that association.

2.  The public member shall be at the time of the member's appointment a citizen of the United States; a resident of this state for a period of one year and a registered voter; a person who is not and never was a member of any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter or the spouse of such person; and a person who does not have and never has had a material, financial interest in either the providing of the professional services regulated by this chapter, or an activity or organization directly related to any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter.  All members, including public members, shall be chosen from lists submitted by the director of the division of professional registration.  The duties of the public member shall not include the determination of the technical requirements to be met for licensure or whether any person meets such technical requirements or of the technical competence or technical judgment of a licensee or a candidate for licensure.

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(L. 1945 p. 635 § 2, A.L. 1965 p. 520, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1266, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1573, A.L. 1995 S.B. 69, et al., A.L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2005 H.B. 402 merged with S.B. 178)

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