KRS 309.131: Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Art Therapists.

(1) There is hereby created the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Art

Therapists that shall be attached to the Department of Professional Licensing

in the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes. The board shall

consist of five (5) members who are United States citizens and have been

Kentucky residents for at least five (5) years prior to their appointment. The

board membership shall be determined as follows:

(a) Four (4) members shall be professional art therapists who are licensed

pursuant to KRS 309.133, and shall have engaged in art therapy practice

for at least five (5) years. These members shall not hold any elected or

appointed office in any professional organization of art therapy or closely

related field during their tenure on the board; and

(b) One (1) member shall represent the public. The public member shall not

have been licensed or have practiced as a professional art therapist, nor

have any significant financial interest, either direct or indirect, in the

profession of art therapy.

(2) All members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor for staggered

terms of four (4) years.

(3) The four (4) professional members shall be appointed from a list of eight (8)

names submitted by the board of directors of the Kentucky Art Therapy

Association, Inc., and the one (1) public member shall be a citizen at large.

Each member shall hold office until a successor is appointed. Vacancies shall

be filled in the same manner as original appointments. No board member shall

serve more than two (2) consecutive terms.

(4) Each board candidate shall be licensed as an art therapist prior to nomination

and shall be actively engaged in the practicing or teaching of art therapy,

except for the one (1) public member.

(5) Members of the board shall receive no compensation, perquisite, or allowance.

(6) The board shall elect annually from its membership a chairman, secretary, and

other officers as necessary to carry out its duties.

(7) The board shall meet at least two (2) times each year. Additional meetings may

be called by the chairman, upon the written request of at least two (2) members

of the board. A simple majority of the board members shall constitute a quorum

of the board.