2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 309 - MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 309.131 Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Art Therapists.
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309.131 Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Art Therapists.
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There is hereby created the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Art
Therapists that shall be attached to the Office of Occupations and Professions in the
Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes. The board shall consist of
five (5) members who are United States citizens and have been Kentucky residents
for at least five (5) years prior to their appointment. The board membership shall be
determined as follows:
(a) Four (4) members shall be professional art therapists who are licensed
pursuant to KRS 309.133, and shall have engaged in art therapy practice for at
least five (5) years. These members shall not hold any elected or appointed
office in any professional organization of art therapy or closely related field
during their tenure on the board; and
(b) One (1) member shall represent the public. The public member shall not have
been licensed or have practiced as a professional art therapist, nor have any
significant financial interest, either direct or indirect, in the profession of art
therapy.
All members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor for staggered terms of
four (4) years.
The four (4) professional members shall be appointed from a list of eight (8) names
submitted by the board of directors of the Kentucky Art Therapy Association, Inc.,
and the one (1) public member shall be a citizen at large. Each member shall hold
office until a successor is appointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. No board member shall serve more than two (2) consecutive
terms.
Each board candidate shall be licensed as an art therapist prior to nomination and
shall be actively engaged in the practicing or teaching of art therapy, except for the
one (1) public member.
Members of the board shall receive no compensation, perquisite, or allowance.
The board shall elect annually from its membership a chairman, secretary, and other
officers as necessary to carry out its duties.
The board shall meet at least two (2) times each year. Additional meetings may be
called by the chairman, upon the written request of at least two (2) members of the
board. A simple majority of the board members shall constitute a quorum of the
board.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1666, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 3, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created 1994 Ky.
Acts ch. 337, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/25/2009). 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 12,
provides: "Any person who is certified as a professional art therapist on the effective
date of this Act [6/25/2009] shall automatically be licensed on the effective date of
this Act [6/25/2009] and shall be issued a copy of the license at the time his or her
certificate was next scheduled to be renewed if at that time the person complies with
the provisions of Section 6 of this Act [KRS 309.1335] and has not been the subject
of disciplinary action under Sections 8 [KRS 309.137] and 10 [KRS 309.1375] of
this Act."
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