2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 73 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS
Chapter 31 - Psychologists.
73-31-5 - Mississippi Board of Psychology; membership; term of office; appointment; qualifications [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].

§ 73-31-5. Mississippi Board of Psychology; membership; term of office; appointment; qualifications [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].
 

(1)  There is hereby created a Mississippi Board of Psychology consisting of seven (7) members who are citizens of the United States and residing in the State of Mississippi. One (1) member of the board shall be a person who is not a psychologist or a mental health professional but who has expressed a continuing interest in the field of psychology. Each board member shall otherwise be licensed under this chapter. At all times the board shall be composed of three (3) members who are faculty at institutions of higher learning that grant doctoral degrees, or staff or faculty of an American Psychological Association approved doctoral level internship. Three (3) members of the board shall be engaged in the professional practice of psychology. The membership of the board shall reflect a diversity of practice specialties. 

(2)  When the term of each psychologist member ends the Governor shall, within thirty (30) days, appoint as his successor, for a term of five (5) years, a psychologist who holds a doctoral degree from an institution of higher education and who has been licensed under this chapter. When the term of the member who is not a psychologist ends, the Governor shall, within thirty (30) days, appoint a qualified person as his successor for a term of five (5) years. No board member shall serve for consecutive terms. Any vacancy occurring in the board membership other than by expiration of term shall be filled by the Governor by appointment for the unexpired term of such member. All appointments of psychologist members of the board shall be made from a list containing the names of at least three (3) eligible nominees for each vacancy submitted by the Mississippi Psychological Association. Each board member shall receive a certificate of appointment from the Governor before entering on the discharge of his duties, and within thirty (30) days from the effective date of his appointment shall subscribe an oath for the faithful performance of his official duty before any officer authorized to administer oaths in this state, and shall file the same with the Secretary of State. To enable the board to have regular, planned changes in membership the following one-time changes in length of terms of board members is enacted: 

(a) One (1) of the two (2) practice members appointed in 1998 will serve a three-year term. 

(b) The practice member appointed in 2002 will serve a three-year term. 

(c) One of the two (2) academic members appointed in 2002 will serve a four-year term. 

(3)  The Governor may remove any board member for misconduct, incompetency, or neglect of duty after giving the board member a written statement of the charges and an opportunity to be heard thereon. 

(4)  Each board member shall serve without compensation, but shall receive actual traveling and incidental expenses necessarily incurred while engaged in the discharge of official duties. 
 

This section shall stand repealed from and after July 1, 2011. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8877-103; Laws,  1966, ch. 483, § 3; reenacted and amended, Laws, 1980, ch. 495, § 3; reenacted, Laws, 1988, ch. 354, § 3; Laws, 1992, ch. 436, § 2; Laws, 1994, ch. 641, § 2; Laws,  1998, ch. 355, § 2; Laws, 2001, ch. 399, § 2, eff from and after June 30, 2001.