Section 11-202 - Membership. - Maryland Statutes

§ 11-202. Membership.
 

(a)  Composition; appointment of members.-  

(1) The Board consists of 9 members appointed by the Governor with the advice of the Secretary, and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

(2) Of the 9 Board members: 

(i) 7 shall be registered environmental sanitarians appointed as follows: 

1. 1 shall be employed by private industry; 

2. 1 shall be employed by the Department of the Environment; 

3. 1 shall be employed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; 

4. 1 shall be employed by a local health department and be employed under the State Personnel Management System; 

5. 1 shall be employed by a local government and not be employed under the State Personnel Management System; and 

6. 2 shall be appointed at large. Their selection shall balance the Board as to geographical distribution throughout the State and may not include a second selection from any jurisdiction already represented; and 

(ii) 2 shall be consumer members. 

(3) All Board members shall be residents of the State. 

(b)  Qualifications of consumer members - In general.- The consumer members of the Board: 

(1) Shall be members of the general public; 

(2) May not be registered environmental sanitarians; 

(3) May not have a household member who is a registered environmental sanitarian; 

(4) May not participate or ever have participated in a related commercial or professional field; 

(5) May not have a household member who participates in a related commercial or professional field; and 

(6) May not have had within 2 years before appointment a substantial financial interest in a person regulated by the Board. 

(c)  Qualifications of consumer members - Restriction.- While a member of the Board, a consumer member may not have a substantial financial interest in a person regulated by the Board. 

(d)  Oath.- Before taking office, each appointee to the Board shall take the oath required by Article I, § 9 of the Maryland Constitution. 

(e)  Tenure; vacancies.-  

(1) The term of a member is 5 years. 

(2) The terms of members are staggered as required by the terms provided for members of the Board on July 1, 1981. 

(3) At the end of a term, a member continues to serve until a successor is appointed and qualifies. 

(4) A member who is appointed after a term has begun serves only for the rest of the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies. 

(5) After July 1, 1984, a member may not serve more than 1 consecutive 5-year term. 

(f)  Removal.- The Governor may remove a member for incompetence, misconduct, neglect of duty, or other sufficient cause. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 726; 1981, ch. 8, § 2; 1984, ch. 560; 1985, ch. 219; 1987, ch. 306, § 3; 1988, ch. 6, § 1; 1996, ch. 476; 2002, ch. 172; 2006, ch. 44, § 6.]