1. The Board shall appoint the members of the Medical Laboratory Advisory Committee.
2. After the initial terms, members shall serve for 3-year terms.
3. A member may not serve for more than two consecutive terms. Service of 2 or more years in filling an unexpired term constitutes a term.
4. The Advisory Committee is composed of:
(a) Two pathologists, certified in clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology.
(b) Two medical technologists.
(c) One bioanalyst who is a laboratory director.
(d) One qualified biochemist from the Nevada System of Higher Education.
(e) One licensed physician actively engaged in the practice of clinical medicine in this State.
5. No member of the Advisory Committee may have any financial or business arrangement with any other member which pertains to the business of laboratory analysis.
6. The Chief Medical Officer or a designated representative of the Chief Medical Officer is an ex officio member of the Advisory Committee.
7. Each member of the Advisory Committee is entitled to receive:
(a) A salary of not more than $60, as fixed by the Board, for each day’s attendance at a meeting of the Committee; and
(b) A per diem allowance and travel expenses at a rate fixed by the Board, while engaged in the business of the Committee. The rate must not exceed the rate provided for state officers and employees generally.
8. While engaged in the business of the Committee, each employee of the Committee is entitled to receive a per diem allowance and travel expenses at a rate fixed by the Board. The rate must not exceed the rate provided for state officers and employees generally.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 928; A 1973, 269; 1977, 1260; 1981, 1996; 1985, 446; 1989, 1706; 1993, 421)