K.S.A. 65-2813: State board of healing arts; qualifications of members.

Five members of the board shall hold a degree of doctor of medicine from an accredited medical school and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of osteopathy from an accredited school of osteopathic medicine and surgery and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; three members shall hold a degree of doctor of chiropractic from an accredited school of chiropractic and shall be residents of and have been actively engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state, for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding their appointment; one member shall be a licensed podiatrist and shall be a resident of and have been actively engaged in the practice of podiatry in the state of Kansas under license issued in this state for a period of at least six consecutive years immediately preceding appointment; and three members shall be appointed to represent the general public of this state. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 75-4315c, no two of the members representing the general public shall be from the same United States congressional district. No member representing the general public shall be the spouse of a licensee of the healing arts or a person or the spouse of a person who has a financial interest in any person's practice of the healing arts.