NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 108

HOUSE BILL 57

 

 

AN ACT TO REVISE THE NUMBER, TERMS, AND NOMINATING AUTHORITY OF MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-139 is rewritten as follows:

"§ 90-139.  Creation and membership of Board of Examiners. — The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners is created, to consist of six practicing doctors of chiropractic of integrity and ability, who are residents of this State and who have actively practiced chiropractic in the State for at least the ten consecutive years immediately preceding their appointments. No more than three members of the Board may be graduates of the same college or school of chiropractic. In addition, the Governor shall appoint a seventh member who is not a licensed chiropractor."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 90-140 is rewritten as follows:

"§ 90-140.  Appointment; term; nomination. — Each year at the time of the regular annual meeting of the licentiates of the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Governor shall appoint two members of the Board for terms of three years from a list of not less than five qualified nominees recommended by the licentiates. The Board shall serve as the elections committee of the licentiates in making the nominations. Members of the Board shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified."

Sec. 3.  Schedule. As soon as practicable after the ratification of this act, the Governor shall appoint two members to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for terms of one year, two members for terms of two years, and two members for terms of three years, and one non-health-related member for a term of four years, all terms to begin at the close of the next regular annual meeting of the licentiates of the Board held after ratification of this act. The terms of Board members serving at the time of ratification of this act shall terminate when the Governor makes the appointments authorized in this section. As the terms of the seven members appointed pursuant to this section expire, successors shall be appointed as provided in Section 2 of this act.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of March, 1979.