§ 59-46.4. Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Interior Designers of Oklahoma.

There is hereby re-created, to continue until July 1, 2014, in accordance with the provisions of the Oklahoma Sunset Law, a board to be known as the “Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Interior Designers of Oklahoma”, hereinafter referred to as the Board.  The Board shall be composed of eleven (11) members, including seven persons who have been duly licensed to practice architecture and are actively engaged in the practice of architecture in this state or are teaching professors of architecture and duly licensed to practice architecture in this state, two persons who have been duly licensed to practice landscape architecture and are actively engaged in the practice of landscape architecture in this state or are teaching professors of landscape architecture and duly licensed to practice landscape architecture in this state, one person as a registered interior designer after the initial appointment and any new appointees thereafter shall be a registered interior designer and either actively engaged as a registered interior designer in this state or is a registered teaching professor of interior design, and one lay member.  Each member of the Board shall be a qualified elector of this state, and the architect and landscape architect members shall have had five (5) years' experience in the application or the study of the principles of their respective profession after initial licensure.  The registered interior designer shall have five (5) years’ experience in the application or the study of the principles of interior design, met the requirements of Section 46.38 of this title and become registered.  After July 1, 2012, the registered interior designer member of the Board shall have five (5) years of being registered by the Board and shall have met the requirements of Section 46.38 of this title.  Re-creation of the Board shall not alter existing staggered terms.  Board members, other than the lay member, shall be appointed for a period of five (5) years thereafter; provided that nothing herein shall affect the tenure of office of anyone who is a member of the Board on the effective date of this act.  A member may be reappointed to succeed such membership.  The licensed persons engaged in the practice of architecture or landscape architecture or the registered interior designer, or the persons who are licensed teaching professors of architecture, landscape architecture or registered and teaching interior design, may be appointed by the Governor from a list of nominees submitted by respective professional societies of this state.  Membership in a professional society shall not be a prerequisite to appointment to the Board.  The lay member of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor to a term coterminous with that of the Governor.  The lay member shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.  Provided, the lay member may continue to serve after the expiration of the term of the member until such time as a successor is appointed.  Vacancies which may occur in the membership of the Board shall be filled by appointment by the Governor.  Each person who has been appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the term for which the member the person shall succeed was appointed and until a successor, in turn, has been appointed and shall have qualified.  Each member of the Board, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of the member, shall make and file with the Secretary of State a written oath or affirmation for the faithful discharge of official duties.  Each member of the Board shall be reimbursed for travel expenses pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 348, § 5, emerg. eff. April 16, 1947.  Amended by Laws 1957, p. 463, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1957; Laws 1980, c. 314, § 4, eff. July 1, 1980; Laws 1981, c. 320, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 178, § 28, operative July 1, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 154, § 2, eff. July 1, 1986; Laws 1986, c. 287, § 5, operative July 1, 1986.  Renumbered from § 45.5 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 287, § 30, operative July 1, 1986.  Amended by Laws 1992, c. 20, § 1; Laws 1998, c. 39, § 1; Laws 1998, c. 220, § 3, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2004, c. 30, § 1; Laws 2006, c. 163, § 4, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2006, c. 193, § 3, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 184, § 4, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 28, § 1.