Effective 28 Aug 1999

338.110. Board of pharmacy, members, qualifications, terms. — 1. The board of pharmacy shall consist of seven persons not connected with any school of pharmacy. Six members shall be licensed as pharmacists and actively engaged in the practice of pharmacy within this state, and at least one of these shall be a person who provides, on a full-time basis, pharmaceutical services to a hospital, skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility. The other member shall be a voting public member. All members shall be appointed by the governor, with the approval of the senate, and shall hold their office for five years from the date of their appointment and until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified.

2. Annually the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association may submit to the director of the division of professional registration the names of five persons licensed as pharmacists within this state, and from this number, or from others, the governor, with the approval of the senate, shall appoint one member to fill the vacancy annually occurring in the board of pharmacy, and vacancies occurring from any other cause shall be filled in like manner. This subsection shall not apply to public member vacancies.

3. The public member shall be at the time of his or her appointment a citizen of the United States; a resident of this state for a period of one year and a registered voter; a person who is not and never was a member of any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter or the spouse of such person; and a person who does not have and never has had a material, financial interest in either the providing of the professional services regulated by this chapter, or an activity or organization directly related to any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter. All members, including public members, shall be chosen from lists submitted by the director of the division of professional registration. The duties of the public member shall not include the determination of the technical requirements to be met for licensure or whether any person meets such technical requirements or of the technical competence or technical judgment of a licensee or a candidate for licensure.

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(RSMo 1939 § 10010, A. 1949 H.B. 2075, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1999 H.B. 343)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 13146; 1919 § 4718; 1909 § 5770