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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.32.06.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="06" heading="Committee.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Board shall appoint members of the Polysomnographic Professional Standards Committee as follows:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Three polysomnographic technologists who:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Before October 1, 2009, are registered polysomnographic technologists; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>On or after October 1, 2009, are both registered polysomnographic technologists and licensed polysomnographic technologists;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Three licensed physicians with specialty certification in sleep medicine who are specialists in the following areas:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>One in psychiatry or internal medicine;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>One in pulmonary medicine; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>One in neurology; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>One consumer member who is a member of the general public and who:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>May not be or ever has been:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>A polysomnographic technologist;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>A health care professional;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>In training to be a polysomnographic technologist or other health care professional; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>A household member of a health care professional or an individual in training to be a health care professional; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>May not:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Participate, or ever have participated, in a commercial or professional field related to polysomnography;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Have a household member who participates in a commercial or professional field related to polysomnography;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Have had, within 2 years before appointment, a financial interest in a individual regulated by the Board; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Have had, within 2 years before appointment, a financial interest in the provision of goods or services to polysomnographic technologists or to the field of polysomnography.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Tenure.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The term of a member is 3 years.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The terms of the members are staggered.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>At the end of a term, a member continues to serve until a successor is appointed.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>An individual may be reappointed for a second term but the individual may not serve more than two full consecutive terms.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Vacancy.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If a vacancy occurs, the Board shall appoint a new member to serve.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The successor member shall only serve for the remainder of the term, unless reappointed.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Quorum.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A majority of the members then serving on the Committee is a quorum.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Business may not be conducted at a Committee meeting unless there is a quorum.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>The Committee shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Make recommendations to the Board regarding the practice of, and regulations governing, polysomnographic technologists;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Make recommendations to the Board on the requirements for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Review selected applications for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist and make recommendations to the Board on the applications;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>At the request of the Board, review complaints against polysomnographic technologists and respond to the Board's questions; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Keep a record of the Committee's proceedings.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>