2772

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 831

482.

[There shall be established a Board of Podiatry
Examiners for the State of Maryland. The Board shall be
part of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and
shall file reports of its activities with the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene at such times as he shall
prescribe. This Board shall consist of four members
whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and
enforce the provisions of this subtitle. They shall be
selected by the Board of Medical Examiners of the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland at its annual meeting
(in June), three of the said four members to be selected
from among the members of the Maryland Pedic Association,
and one from among the members of said Board of Medical
Examiners of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of
Maryland; and each appointee is, immediately after his or
her election, to be furnished with a certificate thereof
by the said Board electing him or her. The term of
office of the four members first appointed shall be for
one year, two years, three years and four years
respectively. The Board of Medical Examiners of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland shall
designate which of said members first appointed shall
serve for said respective terms. Upon the expiration of
the term of each of said members first appointed the term
of his successor shall be for four years, the outgoing
members to be eligible for reelection. The term of
office of each member shall commence on the fifteenth day
of June next ensuing his or her appointment. In case of
a vacancy occurring in said Board of Podiatry Examiners,
said Board shall fill the same until the next annual
meeting of the Board of Medical Examiners of the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, when said latter
Board shall elect an examiner to serve for the remainder
of such unexpired term.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED That new
Section 482 be and it is hereby added to Article 43 —
Health, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) to read as
follows:

Article 43 - Health

482.

(A) THERE IS A STATE BOARD OF PODIATRY EXAMINEES
WHICH IS A PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
HYGIENE. IT CONSISTS OF FIVE REGISTERED AND
PODIATRISTS OF RECOGNIZED ABILITY AND HONOR.

PRACTICING
EACH BOARD

MEMBER IS A RESIDENT OF THE STATE AND HAS BEEN IN ACTIVE