The office of the executive secretary of the health professional licensing boards is hereby created. The health profession licensing boards shall include those boards provided for in articles two-a, four, five, six, seven, seven-a, eight, ten, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-five and twenty-six of chapter thirty of this code. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary the office space personnel, records and like business affairs of the health profession licensing boards shall be within the office of the executive secretary of the health profession licensing boards. The secretaries of each of the health profession licensing boards shall coordinate purchasing, record keeping, personnel, use of reporters and like matters under the executive secretary in order to achieve the most efficient and economical fulfillment of their functions. The executive secretary shall be appointed by the director of health and shall report to the director. The executive secretary shall keep the fiscal records and accounts of each of the boards. The executive secretary shall keep the director informed as to the needs of each of the boards. The executive secretary shall coordinate the activities and efforts of the boards with the activities of the health resources advisory council and shall see that the needs for health manpower perceived by the boards are communicated to the health resources advisory council. The executive secretary shall keep any statistics and information on health professions, collected by or for the boards and shall make such statistics and information available to the health resources advisory council to aid it in carrying out its responsibilities.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations
§30-1-1. Application of Article
§30-1-1a. Legislative Findings and Declaration
§30-1-2a. Required Orientation Session
§30-1-4. Official Seal; Rules and Regulations
§30-1-4a. Lay Members of Professional Boards
§30-1-5. Meetings; Quorum; Investigatory Powers; Duties
§30-1-5a. Reporting of Fraud and Misappropriation of Funds
§30-1-7. Contents of License or Certificate of Registration
§30-1-7a. Continuing Education
§30-1-8a. Reinstatement of License
§30-1-8b. Mediation of Complaints
§30-1-10. Disposition of Money Fines; Legislative Audit; Review of Board"s Fee Structure
§30-1-11. Compensation of Members; Expenses
§30-1-13. Roster of Licensed or Registered Practitioners
§30-1-14. Remission of Certain Fees
§30-1-18. Retired, Volunteer and Inactive Status Licenses
§30-1-19. Combining Board Staff Functions
§30-1-21. Exemption From Licensure for Professional Practice for a Charitable Function
§30-1-23. Waiver of Initial Licensing Fees for Certain Individuals; Definitions
§30-1-24. Use of Criminal Records as Disqualification From Authorization to Practice
§30-1-25. Primacy of State Regulation of Occupational Practice