TITLE 3: HUMAN RESOURCES
DIVISION 2: HEALTH
§ 2235. Transition. (a) The Board is and shall be the successor to the Commonwealth Medical Profession Licensing Board in respect to all of the duties, powers and authority previously vested in the Medical Board and now vested in or imposed upon the Board. (b) All actions and publications, including orders, decisions, rules, regulations, certificates, licenses, or other permissions, contracts, guidelines, practices and procedures of the Medical Board shall continue in full force and effect. The Board shall make such administrative changes as are necessary to conform these to the Board's practices and procedures. (c) Any unexpended balance of moneys of, and any fees or other moneys now owing to, the Medical Board shall be, and the same are hereby, transferred and assigned over to the Board hereby created, to be used and disposed of, as provided by law. (d) The Medical Board members holding office at the time this chapter becomes law shall be members of the Board. They shall continue in office under this chapter for the remainder of the term for which they were appointed. The Board shall immediately meet and designate the chair and the other officers. (e) Except as otherwise provided herein, the regulations, guidelines, standards, and procedures related to the regulation of the functions and operation of a regulated health care professional and/or profession that are in force when this chapter becomes effective, shall continue to apply until amended or repealed by the Board. Source: PL 15-105, § 3(2235), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission replaced “act” with chapter” pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806.