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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="20-202" title_number="20" title_name="Residential Child Care Program Professionals" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="State Board for Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board consists of 11 members.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Of the 11 Board members:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Five members shall be appointed as follows:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Two by the Secretary, one each for the Developmental Disabilities Administration and the Behavioral Health Administration;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>One by the Secretary of Juvenile Services for the agency;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>One by the Secretary of Human Services for the agency; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>One by the State Superintendent of Schools; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Six shall be appointed by the Governor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Of the six appointed by the Governor:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Three shall be program administrators;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>One shall be a residential child and youth care practitioner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Two shall be consumer members.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Governor shall appoint members with the advice and consent of the Senate.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each Board member shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Be a United States citizen; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Have resided in this State for at least 1 year before appointment to the Board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A consumer member of the Board:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May not be a program administrator or a residential child and youth care practitioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May not have a household member who is a program administrator or a residential child and youth care practitioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>May not have a household member who participates in a commercial or professional field related to administering a program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>May not have had within 2 years before appointment a substantial financial interest in a program regulated by an agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>While a member of the Board, a consumer member may not have a substantial financial interest in a program regulated by an agency.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Before taking office, each appointee to the Board shall take the oath required by Article I, § 9 of the Maryland Constitution.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The term of a member is 4 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The terms of members are staggered as required by the terms provided for members of the Board on October 1, 2004.</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 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 label="5">
      <text>A member may not serve more than two consecutive full terms.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>To the extent practicable, the Governor shall fill any vacancy on the Board within 60 days of the date of the vacancy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor may remove a member for incompetence, misconduct, incapacity, or neglect of duty.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On the recommendation of the Children’s Cabinet, the Governor may remove a member whom the Children’s Cabinet finds to have been absent from two successive Board meetings without adequate reason.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
