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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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OCCUPATIONS CODE |
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Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS |
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Subtitle K. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO USE OF CERTAIN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT |
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Chapter 602. MEDICAL PHYSICISTS |
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Subchapter B. TEXAS BOARD OF LICENSURE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL PHYSICISTS |
Sec. 602.052. APPOINTMENT OF BOARD MEMBERS
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(a) The board consists of nine members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate as follows:
(1) five licensed medical physicists, with at least one board certified representative of each of the following specialties:
(A) diagnostic radiological physics;
(B) medical health physics;
(C) medical nuclear physics; and
(D) therapeutic radiological physics;
(2) three physicians, with a board certified representative of each of the following specialties:
(A) diagnostic radiology;
(B) nuclear medicine; and
(C) radiation therapy; and
(3) one member who represents the public.
(b) The governor shall appoint the board's medical physicist members from lists of candidates who have practiced medical physics for the period prescribed by Section 602.053(b) submitted by specialty from the following groups on the governor's request:
(1) the Southwest Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine;
(2) Region VIII of the American College of Medical Physics;
(3) the South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society;
(4) the Southwestern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine; and
(5) the Texas Radiological Society.
(c) The governor shall appoint the board's physician members from lists of candidates who have practiced medicine in the designated specialties for the period prescribed by Section 602.053(c) submitted by specialty from the following groups on the governor's request:
(1) the Southwestern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine; and
(2) the Texas Radiological Society.
(d) Appointments to the board shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, creed, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the appointee.