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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.32.20.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="20" heading="Perfusion Advisory Committee.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Board shall appoint members of the Committee as follows:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Three individuals who are licensed perfusionists-advanced and who:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Are certified by a National Certifying Board; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Have a minimum of 2 years of perfusion experience.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Three physicians, at least one of whom:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Performs cardiac or cardio-thoracic surgery; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Is a cardiac or cardio-thoracic anesthesiologist; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>One consumer member who:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Shall be a member of the general public; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>May not:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Practice, or ever have practiced perfusion, or any other health care profession;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Be, or ever have been, in training to practice perfusion or any other health care profession;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Have a household member who is a health care professional or is in training to be a health care professional;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Participate, or ever have participated, in a commercial or professional field related to perfusion;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Have a household member who participates in a commercial or professional field related to perfusion;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>Have had, within 2 years before appointment, a financial interest in a person regulated by the Board; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>Have had, within 2 years of appointment, a financial interest in the provision of goods or services to perfusionists or to the field of perfusion.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Chair.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Committee shall elect a chair from among its members.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The chair shall serve for 2 years.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <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 and qualifies.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>An individual may be reappointed for a second 3-year term, but the individual may not serve more than two consecutive 3-year terms.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>The terms of the initial members of the Perfusion Advisory Committee shall expire as follows:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Two members in 2013;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Two members in 2014; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Three members in 2015.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <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="E.">
    <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="F.">
    <text>The Committee shall develop and make recommendations to the Board in any matter related to regulating the practice of perfusion in the State.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>The Board shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Consider all recommendations of the Committee; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Provide the Committee with an annual report on disciplinary matters involving licensees.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>