625A.030 - Creation; appointment, terms, qualifications and removal of members; election of Chair and Secretary. - Nevada Statutes

625A.030  Creation; appointment, terms, qualifications and removal of members; election of Chair and Secretary.

      1.  There is hereby created the Board of Registered Environmental Health Specialists, consisting of the State Health Officer or his or her designated representative and four members appointed by the Governor.

      2.  After the initial terms, each member appointed by the Governor must be appointed for a term of 3 years.

      3.  Of the members of the Board appointed by the Governor after the initial appointments:

      (a) Two must represent the general public. These members must not be:

             (1) An environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist trainee; or

             (2) The spouse or the parent or child, by blood, marriage or adoption, of an environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist trainee.

      (b) Two must be environmental health specialists, one employed by the health district containing Washoe County and one employed by the health district containing Clark County.

      4.  The Governor may, after notice and hearing, remove any member of the Board for misconduct in office, incompetency, neglect of duty or other sufficient cause.

      5.  The Board shall elect from its members who are not employees of the State a Chair and a Secretary. The Chair must be elected biennially on or before July 1 of each even-numbered year. The Secretary continues in office at the pleasure of the Board.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 1157; A 1995, 89; 2003, 1188; 2005, 1987)