PRINTER'S NO. 1215
No. 1044 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY SHELTON, APRIL 27, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, APRIL 27, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," adding a member of the
21 public at large to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
22 and making editorial changes.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 461, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
26 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," amended
27 September 20, 1955 (P.L.587, No.154), is amended to read:
28 Section 461. State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.--The
1 State Board of Chiropractic Examiners is hereby created and
2 shall consist of the [Superintendent of Public Instruction]
3 Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs, one
4 member who shall be a person representing the public at large
5 and five (5) members [to be appointed by the Governor within
6 sixty (60) days after the effective date of this act. The term
7 of office of each member so appointed, except as herein
8 otherwise provided, shall be four (4) years until his successor
9 be appointed and qualified.
10 Each member of the board] each of whom shall be a graduate of
11 a legally incorporated and reputable school or college of
12 chiropractic, shall have been engaged in the full-time practice
13 of chiropractic in this State for at least five (5) years
14 immediately preceding May twenty-three, one thousand nine
15 hundred forty-nine and at the time of his appointment duly
16 licensed as a chiropractor under the provisions of the
17 "Chiropractic Registration Act of 1951," or at the time of his
18 appointment shall have been duly licensed for a period of five
19 (5) consecutive years as a chiropractor under the provisions of
20 said act. No member shall be in any manner financially
21 interested in or connected with the faculty or management of any
22 chiropractic school or college. Not more than two (2) members of
23 the board shall be graduates of any one school or college of
24 chiropractic. The term of each member shall be four (4) years
25 until his successor is appointed and qualified.
26 Any vacancy occurring in the board shall be filled by the
27 Governor for the unexpired term only. In the original
28 appointment of the members of the board, one (1) member shall be
29 appointed for the term of one (1) year, one (1) member for the
30 term of two (2) years, one (1) member for the term of three (3)
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1 years, and two (2) members for the term of four (4) years.
2 [Three (3)] Four (4) members of the board shall constitute a
3 quorum, and the board shall annually select from among its
4 members a chairman and shall elect a secretary who need not be a
5 member of the board.
6 The members of the board other than the [Superintendent of
7 Public Instruction] Commissioner of Professional and
8 Occupational Affairs shall receive actual traveling expenses and
9 fifteen dollars ($15) per diem when actually engaged in the
10 performance of the official duties, and the secretary shall
11 receive such compensation as the board shall determine, with the
12 approval of the [Superintendent of Public Instruction]
13 Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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