TITLE 23
Health and Safety
CHAPTER 23-39
Respiratory Care Act
SECTION 23-39-5
§ 23-39-5 Board created.
(a) Within the division of professional regulation of the health department
shall be a board of respiratory care consisting of five (5) members as follows:
(1) One physician licensed in the state who is knowledgeable
in respiratory care;
(2) Three (3) licensed respiratory care practitioners;
(3) One public member who is a resident of Rhode Island. The
public member shall not have been licensed as a respiratory care practitioner
nor shall he or she have any financial interest, direct or indirect, in the
occupation regulated.
(b) The director of the department of health, with the
approval of the governor, within sixty (60) days following November 1, 1986,
shall appoint one board member for a term of one year; two (2) for a term of
two (2) years; and two (2) for a term of three (3) years. Appointments made
thereafter shall be for three-year terms but no person shall be appointed to
serve more than two (2) consecutive terms.
(c) The director, in his or her initial appointment, shall
appoint as the respiratory care practitioner one of the members of the board or
a person currently practicing as respiratory care practitioners in Rhode Island.
(d) The board shall meet during the first month of each
calendar year to select a chairperson and for other purposes. At least one
additional meeting shall be held before the end of each calendar year. Other
meetings may be convened at the call of the chairperson, the administrator of
professional regulation, or upon the written request of any two (2) board
members.
(e) In the event of a vacancy in one of the positions, the
director of the department of health, with the approval of the governor, may
appoint a person who shall fill the unexpired term.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1986, ch. 428, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 84, § 23.)