GEORGIA STATUTES AND CODES
               		§ 31-2-3 - Board of Community Health reconstituted; powers, functions,  and duties; terms of board members; vacancies; removal; chairperson;  expenses
               		
               		
               	 	
               	 	               	 	
               	 	
               	 	
               	 		
O.C.G.A.    31-2-3   (2010)
    31-2-3.    Board of Community Health reconstituted; powers, functions,  and duties; terms of board members; vacancies; removal; chairperson;  expenses 
      (a)  There is  reconstituted the Board of Community Health, as of July 1, 2009, which  shall establish the general policy to be followed by the Department of  Community Health. The powers, functions, and duties of the Board of  Community Health as they existed on June 30, 2009, are transferred to  the reconstituted Board of Community Health effective July 1, 2009. The  board shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor and  confirmed by the Senate.
(b)  Board members  in office on June 30, 2009, shall serve out the remainder of their  respective terms and successors to these board seats shall be appointed  in accordance with this Code section. Thereafter, all succeeding  appointments shall be for three-year terms from the expiration of the  previous term.
(c)  Vacancies in office  shall be filled by appointment by the Governor in the same manner as the  appointment to the position on the board which becomes vacant, and the  appointment shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation at the  next session of the General Assembly. An appointment to fill a vacancy  other than by expiration of a term of office shall be for the balance of  the unexpired term.
(d)  Members of the  board may be removed from office under the same conditions for removal  from office of members of professional licensing boards provided in Code  Section 43-1-17.
(e)  There shall be a  chairperson of the board elected by and from the membership of the board  who shall be the presiding officer of the board.
(f)  The  members of the board shall receive a per diem allowance and expenses as  shall be set and approved by the Office of Planning and Budget in  conformance with rates and allowances set for members of other state  boards.
               	 	
               	 	
               	 	               	 	
               	 	               	 	               	  
               	 
               	 
               	 
               	 
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