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# O.C.G.A. § 43-34-3. Terms of office; representation of geographic regions; vacancies.

(a) The members of the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners, now known as the Georgia Composite Medical Board, in office on June 30, 2009, shall continue to serve out their respective terms and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. The two new board members added as of July 1, 2009, pursuant to Code Section 43-34-2 shall be appointed by the Governor to serve as members of the board for terms of office beginning on July 1, 2009. The terms of office of the two new members shall be for two years and three years, respectively, with the Governor to specify the initial term of office for each new member at the time of his or her appointment. Upon the expiration of such initial terms, successors to such members of the board whose terms of office expire shall serve for terms of four years each.

(b) Terms of office of members of the board shall be four years. Members of the board shall serve for the terms specified and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. All reappointments and new appointments shall be made so that the various geographic regions of the state shall be represented. Any vacancy that may occur in the board as a result of death, resignation, relocation from the state, or other cause shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as regular appointments are made.

## History

Ga. L. 1909, p. 123, § 1; Ga. L. 1913, p. 101, § 3; Ga. L. 1918, p. 173, § 3; Code 1933, §§ 84-903, 84-1201; Ga. L. 1939, p. 226, § 1; Ga. L. 1963, p. 285, § 2; Ga. L. 1970, p. 301, § 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 689, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 382, § 3; Code 1981, § 43-34-22; Ga. L. 1997, p. 935, § 1.1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 43; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 12; Code 1981, § 43-34-3, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509, effective July 1, 2009, redesignated former Code Section 43-34-3 as present Code Section 43-34-11.

## Law Reviews

For article, ‘‘Legislative Delegation of Executive Power of Appointment to Private Organizations Held Unconstitutional,’’ see 16 Ga. St. B. J. 129 (1980).

For comment on Rogers v. Medical Ass’n, 244 Ga. 151, 259 S.E.2d 85 (1979), invalidating Georgia statute requiring Governor’s appointments to Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (now Georgia Composite Medical Board) be made solely from nominees submitted by state medical society as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to a private organization, see 29 Emory L. J. 1183 (1980).