2005 Idaho Code - 54-1805 — THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICINE ESTABLISHED

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 18
                           PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
    54-1805.  THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICINE ESTABLISHED. (1) There is hereby
established in the department of self-governing agencies a state board of
medicine to be composed of ten (10) members. The membership of the state board
of medicine as it exists on the effective date of this act is hereby confirmed
as members of the board for the terms to which they were originally appointed.
    (2)  (a) The board shall consist of ten (10) members. The director of the
    Idaho state police shall be a member of the board. Seven (7) members shall
    be physicians who are residents of this state and engaged in the active
    practice of medicine in this state, and two (2) members shall be public
    members.
    (b)  All physician appointments to the board shall be for six (6) year
    terms. The physician members shall consist of six (6) members who are
    licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this state and one (1) member
    who is licensed to practice osteopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine
    and surgery in this state. Whenever a term of a member of the board who is
    licensed to practice medicine and surgery expires or becomes vacant, the
    Idaho medical association shall nominate three (3) persons licensed to
    practice medicine and surgery for each such vacancy, and forward such
    nominations to the governor who shall appoint from among such nominees,
    one (1) person to be a member of the board to fill such vacancy. Whenever
    a term of the member of the board who is licensed to practice osteopathic
    medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery expires or becomes vacant,
    the Idaho osteopathic association shall nominate three (3) persons
    licensed to practice osteopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine and
    surgery for such vacancy, and shall forward the nominations to the
    governor who shall appoint from among such nominees one (1) person to be a
    member of the board to fill such vacancy.
    (c)  All public members shall be appointed by the governor for three (3)
    year terms. Public members must reside in the state and be persons of
    integrity and good reputation who have lived in this state for at least
    five (5) years immediately preceding their appointment, who have never
    been authorized to practice a healing art, and who have never had a
    substantial personal, business, professional, or pecuniary connection with
    a healing art or with a medical education or health care facility, except
    as patients or potential patients.
    (3)  Appointments to fill vacancies occurring from some other reason than
expiration of a term for which a member was appointed, shall be made in the
same manner as  hereinabove set forth for the unexpired term. The governor may
remove any member of the board from the membership of the board, who is guilty
of malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance.
    (4)  The board shall elect a chairman from its membership. The members of
the board except for state employees shall be compensated as provided by
section 59-509(n), Idaho Code. Five (5) members of the board shall constitute
a quorum, and the board may act by virtue of a majority vote of members
present at a meeting.