§ 61-8-5 — Podiatry advisory committee created; members;

qualifications; terms; vacancies. A. The "podiatry advisory committee" is created to advise the board regarding licensure of podiatric physicians and efforts to recruit and retain podiatric physicians for practice in this state. The committee shall consist of three members, one member who shall be the executive director of the New Mexico podiatric medical association serving as an ex-officio member and two members who shall be podiatric physicians licensed to practice in New Mexico who have been actively engaged in the practice of podiatry for at least three consecutive years immediately prior to their appointments. B. Members of the committee shall be appointed by the board from a list of names submitted to the board by the New Mexico podiatric medical association or its authorized governing body or council. The list shall be submitted to the board within thirty days of a vacancy and shall contain at least three qualified podiatric physicians for each member to be appointed. Member vacancies shall be filled in the same manner. Committee members shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified.

Legislative History

1953 Comp., § 67-6-5, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 221, § 5; 1979, ch. 385, § 1;