Chap. 187.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1642 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State
Board of Dental Examiners. [H 204

Approved March 11, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixteen hundred forty-two of the Code of Virginia.
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1642. (a) The Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners
is continued and is to consist of six members to be appointed by the
Governor. All vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by the
Governor.

(b) The members in office when this amendment takes effect are
continued until July one, nineteen hundred forty-four and their succes-
sors shall be appointed as follows: two for a term to expire five years:
one for a term to expire four years: one for a term to expire three years:
one for a term to expire two years; and one for a term to expire one year,
from June thirty, nineteen hundred forty-four.

(c) Thereaiter as the terms of office respectively of the members
expire by limitation the Governor shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so
occasioned, qualified persons whose terms shall be for five years from
the dav on which that of their immediate predecessors expired.

(d) Each appointment on the Board may be made from a list of at
least three names for cach vacancy submitted to the Governor, or to the
Governor-elect, by the Virginia State Dental Association. Nominations
are to be made to the Governor by June first of each year.

(e) The Governor shall notify the association promptly of any
vacancy other than by expiration and like nominations may be made by
the association or its executive committee for the filling of the vacancy.

({) In no case shall the Governor be bound to make any appointment
from among the nominees of the association or the executive committee.

(g) The members of the Board shall be licensed practitioners of den-
tistry, of acknowledged ability in the profession.

(h) No person except the secretary of the Board shall be eligible
to serve for or during more than two successive terms, and incumbency
during the current term when this amendment takes effect constitutes the
first of the two successive terms with respect to eligibility for appoint-
ment.

(1) The Governor may remove any member of the Board for mis-
conduct, incapacity, or neglect of duty and he shall be the sole judge
of the sufficiency of the cause for removal. He shall report every such
removal at once to the General Assembly if it is in session, and if not at
the beginning of the next session.

(j) All members nominated for the Board shall be members in good
standing of the Association, and not connected with or interested in any
dental school, college, university or dental department of a university,
or dental supply business and must have practiced dentistry or one of its
branches, in this State for a period of not less than three years.

(k) Upon failure of any member of the Board to attend a meeting
thereof the members of the Board present, if so desired, may appoint a
substitute to temporarily fill the vacancy for that meeting, and for con-
tinued failure or inability of a member of the Board to attend two
consecutive meetings thereof, the Board may declare a vacancy existing.