Board of Professional Licensing Appointment: Qualifications

Board of Professional Licensing Appointment: Qualifications. There is in the Commonwealth Government a Board of Professional Licensing, a regulatory board given the power by law to license and regulate architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, and real property appraisers and whose duty shall be to administer the provisions of this Act, composed of five members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. One member shall be from Tinian, one member shall be from Rota and three members shall be from Saipan. The reduction in membership shall take effect through attrition. Of the five members, at least one member shall be a woman and three members shall be from the professional fields as set forth in this Act. Each member shall have been a resident of the Commonwealth for at least three years. A member practicing the profession shall have been engaged in the practice of the member’s profession for at least five years immediately preceding the date of the member’s appointment and is also licensed to practice the profession in the Commonwealth. The public member(s) of the Board shall not be or have been an engineer, architect, land surveyor, landscape architect or real property appraiser. Source: PL 1-8, ch. 5, § 2, modified; amended by PL 11-99, § 3 (§ 3102); repealed and reenacted by PL 14-95, § 3 (3102).