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2018 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 18 - PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Section 54-1805 - THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICINE ESTABLISHED.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 54-1805 (2018)
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 or the director’s designated agent 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 recommend three (3) persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery for each such vacancy, and forward such recommendations to the governor who shall consider them for appointment, as well as recommendations from any individual residing in this state. 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 recommend three (3) persons licensed to practice osteopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery for such vacancy, and shall forward their names to the governor who shall consider them for appointment, as well as recommendations from any individual residing in this state.
(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. All board members shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.
(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.
History:
[54-1805, added 1977, ch. 199, sec. 6, p. 540; am. 1980, ch. 247, sec. 64, p. 627; am. 1990, ch. 106, sec. 1, p. 213; am. 1998, ch. 39, sec. 1, p. 166; am. 2000, ch. 469, sec. 125, p. 1586; am. 2016, ch. 340, sec. 22, p. 943.]
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