P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 4002
The Board of Examiners of Nuclear Medicine Technologists is hereby created, attached to the Division of Examining Boards of the Department of Health of Puerto Rico, to handle all administrative matters and ensure that all persons who are granted a license to practice nuclear medicine technology be duly qualified, knowledgeable and competent in the exercise of their duties in order to guarantee the health, welfare and safety of the citizens. This Board shall be responsible for executing all provisions of this chapter and adopt the regulations needed to enforce it.
The Board shall be constituted by five (5) members who shall be appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico with the advice and consent of the Senate of Puerto Rico. It shall be staffed as follows: two (2) nuclear medicine technologists and one nuclear medicine technology educator who have approved the “NMTCB” certification examination, one nuclear physician and one radiation physicist. Two (2) of these members shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years, two (2) for a term of three (3) years and one for a term of two (2) years. They shall hold office as such until their successors are appointed and take office. At the expiration of these initial terms the subsequent appointments shall be made for a term of four (4) years and the members thus appointed shall hold office as such until their successors are appointed and take office.
The technologist members of the first constituted Board shall have approved the “NMTCB” certification examination to practice the profession of nuclear medicine technologists. The Secretary of the Department of Health shall grant a license to these members initially appointed to constitute the Board. The technologists subsequently appointed as members of the Board must hold a certificate as nuclear medicine technologists issued by the Board as provided in this chapter.
Any vacancy which may arise on the Board before the term of office of the member creating said vacancy expires, shall be filled by the Governor for the remainder of the term that the original member should have completed.
No member of the Board may be appointed for more than two (2) consecutive terms. However, said member may be eligible for a new term after five (5) years have elapsed from his/her last term [in] office. Any member of the Board who decides to resign from the latter shall have to notify it to the Governor, to the Division of Examining Boards of the Department of Health and to the Board, by certified mail, thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of said resignation.
The Governor may dismiss any member of the Board after bringing charges and due notice and hearing, for inefficiency or negligence in the discharge of his/her duties, negligence in the performance of his/her profession, for the revocation or cancellation of his/her license to practice the profession, or on any other just cause.
Thirty (30) days after the members have been appointed, the Board shall choose a chairperson from among its members. The Board shall elect a chairperson every year.
History —Aug. 8, 1998, No. 205, § 3.