§ 59-482. Tenure - Appointment list - Persons ineligible.

Physician members of the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall be appointed for terms of seven (7) years.  The lay members of the Board shall serve terms coterminous with that of the Governor and until a qualified successor has been duly appointed and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.  No member shall be appointed to serve more than two complete consecutive terms.  Each physician member shall hold office until the expiration of the term for which appointed or until a qualified successor has been duly appointed.  An appointment shall be made by the Governor within ninety (90) days after the expiration of the term of any member or the occurrence of a vacancy on the Board due to resignation, death, or any cause resulting in an unexpired term.  The appointment of allopathic physicians shall be made from a list of three names submitted to the Governor by the Oklahoma State Medical Association.  The Association may submit names of members or nonmembers of the Association.  No member of the Board shall be a stockholder in or full-time salaried or full-time geographic member of the faculty or board of trustees of any medical school.

Added by Laws 1923, c. 59, p. 102, § 2, emerg. eff. March 31, 1923.  Amended by Laws 1925, c. 63, p. 95, § 2, emerg. eff. April 6, 1925; Laws 1943, p. 135, § 5, emerg. eff. March 24, 1943; Laws 1965, c. 264, § 2, emerg. eff. June 23, 1965; Laws 1983, c. 159, § 2, operative July 1, 1983; Laws 1987, c. 118, § 7, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1993, c. 280, § 2; Laws 1994, c. 323, § 3, eff. July 1, 1994; Laws 1998, c. 324, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 1998.