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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="14-5B-05" title_number="14" title_name="Physicians" subtitle_number="5B" subtitle_name="Radiation Therapy, Radiography, Nuclear Medicine Technology, and Radiology Assistance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Radiation Therapy, Radiography, Nuclear Medicine Technology, and Radiology Assistance Advisory Committee within the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Committee consists of nine members appointed by the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Of the nine members:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>One shall be a licensed physician who specializes in radiology;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>One shall be a licensed physician who specializes in radiology and who supervises a radiologist assistant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>One shall be a licensed physician who specializes in nuclear medicine;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>One shall be a licensed physician who specializes in radiation oncology;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>One shall be a licensed radiation therapist;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>One shall be a licensed radiographer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>One shall be a licensed radiologist assistant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>One shall be a licensed nuclear medicine technologist; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>One shall be a consumer member.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each member of the Committee licensed by the Board must be in good standing with the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The consumer member of the Committee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Must be a member of the general public;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May not be or ever have been:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A radiation therapist, radiographer, radiologist assistant, or nuclear medicine technologist;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any other health care professional; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>In training to be a radiation therapist, radiographer, radiologist assistant, nuclear medicine technologist, or other health care professional; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>May not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Participate or ever have participated in a commercial or professional field related to radiation therapy, radiography, nuclear medicine technology, or radiology assistance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Have a household member who participates in a commercial or professional field related to radiation therapy, radiography, nuclear medicine technology, or radiology assistance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Have had within 2 years before appointment a financial interest in a person regulated by the Board; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Have had within 2 years before appointment a financial interest in the provision of goods or services to radiation therapists, radiographers, radiology assistants, or nuclear medicine technologists or to the field of radiation therapy, radiography, nuclear medicine technology, or radiology assistance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Each member of the Committee must be a resident of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>From among its members, the Committee shall elect a chair once every 2 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The chair, or the chair’s designee, shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Board as a representative of the Committee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The term of a member is 3 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The terms of members are staggered as required by regulation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>At the end of a term, a member continues to serve until a successor is appointed and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A member may not serve more than two consecutive full terms.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A member who is appointed after a term has begun serves only for the rest of the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>A quorum of the Committee consists of five members.</text>
  </level>
</section>
