of office - Appointments. A. The State Board of Pharmacy shall consist of six (6) persons, five who shall be licensed as pharmacists by this state and one who shall be a public member. 1. The pharmacist members shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall: a. be registered and in good standing in the State of Oklahoma, and b. have been actively engaged in the practice of pharmacy within this state for a period of not less than five (5) years immediately prior to serving on the Board. 2. The public member shall be appointed by the Governor and shall: a. be a resident of the State of Oklahoma for not less than five (5) years, and b. not be a pharmacist or be related by blood or marriage within the third degree of consanguinity to a pharmacist. B. The present members of the Board shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years. The public member of the Board shall serve a term coterminous with the Governor and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The terms of the members of the Board shall expire on the 30th day of June of the year designated for the expiration of the term for which appointed but the member shall serve until a qualified successor has been duly appointed. No person shall be appointed to serve more than two consecutive terms. Appointments of pharmacists to the Board shall be made from a list of ten (10) names representative of the pharmacy profession submitted annually by the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pharmacists Association after an election has been held by mail ballot. Added by Laws 1961, p. 446, § 3, emerg. eff. May 22, 1961. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 199, § 3, emerg. eff. May 24, 1993; Laws 2009, c. 321, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2015, c. 230, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
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