2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 143B - Executive Organization Act of 1973.
§ 143B-162. Professional Advisory Committee - members; selection; quorum; compensation.

§ 143B‑162.  Professional Advisory Committee – members; selection; quorum; compensation.

The Professional Advisory Committee of the Department of Health and Human Services shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor, three of whom shall be licensed physicians nominated by the North Carolina Medical Society whose practice is limited to ophthalmology, three optometrists nominated by the North Carolina State Optometric Society, and three opticians nominated by the North Carolina Opticians Association.

Those nine members shall serve three‑year terms staggered such that the terms of three members shall expire each year. A member of the Committee shall continue to serve until his successor is appointed and qualifies. Any appointment to fill a vacancy on the Committee created by the resignation, dismissal, death, or disability of a member shall be for the balance of the unexpired term.

The Governor shall have the power to remove any member of the Committee from office in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 143B‑16 of the Executive Organization Act of 1973.

The Governor shall designate a member of the Committee to serve as chairman at his pleasure.

Members of the Committee shall receive per diem and necessary travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 138‑5.

A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

All clerical and other services required by the Committee shall be supplied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The schedule for appointments to the Committee described in Section 1 of this act is as follows: The ophthalmologists and optometrists serving on the Committee on the date this act is ratified shall continue to serve until their respective terms expire. Initial appointments of the three opticians shall be made no later than July 2, 1979, shall become effective on that date, and shall be for one, two, and three‑year terms, respectively. At the end of the respective terms of office of those nine members, the appointment of their successors shall be for terms of three years. (1973, c. 476, s. 145; 1979, c. 977, ss. 1, 2; 1997‑443, s. 11A.118(a).)