147.14 - COMPOSITION OF BOARDS -- QUORUM.
147.14 COMPOSITION OF BOARDS -- QUORUM.
1. The board members shall consist of the following:
a. For barbering, three members licensed to practice
barbering, and two members who are not licensed to practice barbering
and who shall represent the general public.
b. For medicine, five members licensed to practice medicine
and surgery, two members licensed to practice osteopathic medicine
and surgery, and three members not licensed to practice either
medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, and who
shall represent the general public.{
c. For nursing, four registered nurses, two of whom shall be
actively engaged in practice, two of whom shall be nurse educators
from nursing education programs; of these, one in higher education
and one in area community and vocational-technical registered nurse
education; one licensed practical nurse actively engaged in practice;
and two members not registered nurses or licensed practical nurses
and who shall represent the general public. The representatives of
the general public shall not be members of health care delivery
systems.
d. For dentistry, five members licensed to practice
dentistry, two members licensed to practice dental hygiene, and two
members not licensed to practice dentistry or dental hygiene and who
shall represent the general public. The two dental hygienist board
members and one dentist board member shall constitute a dental
hygiene committee of the board as provided in section 153.33A.
e. For pharmacy, five members licensed to practice pharmacy
and two members who are not licensed to practice pharmacy and who
shall represent the general public.
f. For optometry, five members licensed to practice optometry
and two members who are not licensed to practice optometry and who
shall represent the general public.
g. For psychology, five members who are licensed to practice
psychology and two members not licensed to practice psychology and
who shall represent the general public. Of the five members who are
licensed to practice psychology, one member shall be primarily
engaged in graduate teaching in psychology or primarily engaged in
research psychology, three members shall be persons who render
services in psychology, and one member shall represent areas of
applied psychology and may be affiliated with training institutions
and shall devote a major part of the member's time to rendering
service in psychology.
h. For chiropractic, five members licensed to practice
chiropractic and two members who are not licensed to practice
chiropractic and who shall represent the general public.
i. For speech pathology and audiology, five members licensed
to practice speech pathology or audiology at least two of whom shall
be licensed to practice speech pathology and at least two of whom
shall be licensed to practice audiology, and two members who are not
licensed to practice speech pathology or audiology and who shall
represent the general public.
j. For physical therapy and occupational therapy, three
members licensed to practice physical therapy, two members licensed
to practice occupational therapy, and two members who are not
licensed to practice physical therapy or occupational therapy and who
shall represent the general public.
k. For dietetics, one licensed dietitian representing the
approved or accredited dietetic education programs, one licensed
dietitian representing clinical dietetics, one licensed dietitian
representing community nutrition services, and two members who are
not licensed dietitians and who shall represent the general public.
l. For the board of physician assistants, five members
licensed to practice as physician assistants, at least two of whom
practice in counties with a population of less than fifty thousand,
one member licensed to practice medicine and surgery who supervises a
physician assistant, one member licensed to practice osteopathic
medicine and surgery who supervises a physician assistant, and two
members who are not licensed to practice either medicine and surgery
or osteopathic medicine and surgery or licensed as a physician
assistant and who shall represent the general public. At least one
of the physician members shall be in practice in a county with a
population of less than fifty thousand.
m. For behavioral science, three members licensed to practice
marital and family therapy, all of whom shall be practicing marital
and family therapists; three members licensed to practice mental
health counseling, one of whom shall be employed in graduate
teaching, training, or research in mental health counseling and two
of whom shall be practicing mental health counselors; and three
members who are not licensed to practice marital and family therapy
or mental health counseling and who shall represent the general
public.
n. For cosmetology arts and sciences, a total of seven
members, three who are licensed cosmetologists, one who is a licensed
electrologist, esthetician, or nail technologist, one who is a
licensed instructor of cosmetology arts and sciences at a public or
private school and who does not own a school of cosmetology arts and
sciences, and two who are not licensed in a practice of cosmetology
arts and sciences and who shall represent the general public.
o. For respiratory care, one licensed physician with training
in respiratory care, three respiratory care practitioners who have
practiced respiratory care for a minimum of six years immediately
preceding their appointment to the board and who are recommended by
the society for respiratory care, and one member not licensed to
practice medicine or respiratory care who shall represent the general
public.
p. For mortuary science, four members licensed to practice
mortuary science, one member owning, operating, or employed by a
crematory, and two members not licensed to practice mortuary science
and not a crematory owner, operator, or employee who shall represent
the general public.
q. For massage therapists, four members licensed to practice
massage therapy and three members who are not licensed to practice
massage therapy and who shall represent the general public.
r. For athletic trainers, three members licensed to practice
athletic training, three members licensed to practice medicine and
surgery, and one member not licensed to practice athletic training or
medicine and surgery and who shall represent the general public.
s. For podiatry, five members licensed to practice podiatry
and two members who are not licensed to practice podiatry and who
shall represent the general public.
t. For social work, a total of seven members, five who are
licensed to practice social work, with at least one from each of
three levels of licensure described in section 154C.3, subsection 1,
and one employed in the area of children's social work, and two who
are not licensed social workers and who shall represent the general
public.
u. For sign language interpreting and transliterating, four
members licensed to practice interpreting and transliterating, three
of whom shall be practicing interpreters and transliterators at the
time of appointment to the board and at least one of whom is employed
in an educational setting; and three members who are consumers of
interpreting or transliterating services as defined in section
154E.1, each of whom shall be deaf.
v. For hearing aid dispensers, three licensed hearing aid
dispensers and two members who are not licensed hearing aid
dispensers who shall represent the general public. No more than two
members of the board shall be employees of, or dispensers principally
for, the same hearing aid manufacturer.
w. For nursing home administrators, a total of nine members,
four who are licensed nursing home administrators, one of whom is the
administrator of a nonproprietary nursing home; three licensed
members of any profession concerned with the care and treatment of
chronically ill or elderly patients who are not nursing home
administrators or nursing home owners; and two members of the general
public who are not licensed under chapter 155, have no financial
interest in any nursing home, and who shall represent the general
public.
2. A majority of the members of a board constitutes a quorum. Section History: Early Form
[C97, § 2564, 2576, 2584; S13, § 2564, 2575-a29, -a30, -a37, -a38,
2576, 2583-a, -h, -i, 2600-b, -c; SS15, § 2584; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39,
§ 2451, 2452, 2475; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 147.14, 147.15,
147.38; C71, 73, § 147.14, 147.15, 147.38, 153.1; C75, 77, 79, 81, §
147.14] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1075, § 9; 85 Acts, ch 168, § 5; 86 Acts, ch 1003, §
1; 86 Acts, ch 1022, § 1; 88 Acts, ch 1134, § 29; 88 Acts, ch 1225, §
6, 7; 91 Acts, ch 229, § 3; 92 Acts, ch 1183, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1205,
§ 15, 16; 96 Acts, ch 1035, §2, 3, 13; 96 Acts, ch 1036, § 12; 96
Acts, ch 1148, § 1, 2; 98 Acts, ch 1002, §1, 2; 98 Acts, ch 1010, §1;
98 Acts, ch 1053, §10; 99 Acts, ch 19, §1; 99 Acts, ch 96, §14; 2004
Acts, ch 1175, §423, 433; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §36; 2007 Acts, ch 10,
§33; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §188; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §26; 2008 Acts, ch
1088, §13; 2009 Acts, ch 56, §2; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §47
Referred to in § 148.2A, 152B.13, 154F.1
oard of medicine alternate members, see § 148.2A