(a) A State board of land surveyors is created to regulate the licensure of land surveyors. It shall be called "Board of Land Surveyors."

(b) The Board shall consist of five licensed land surveyors and two members of the public who have no financial interest in the activities regulated under this chapter, other than as consumers or possible consumers of its services. Public members shall have no financial interest personally or through a spouse, parent, child, brother, or sister. "Financial interest" means dealing in goods or services that are uniquely related to activities regulated under this chapter, or investing anything of value in a business licensed under this chapter.

(c) Board members shall be appointed by the Governor pursuant to 3 V.S.A. §§ 129b and 2004.

(d) One member shall have been licensed under this chapter after written examination taken within the five years immediately preceding the date of appointment. (Added 1967, No. 364 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1969, No. 11, eff. Feb. 26, 1969; 1985, No. 245 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2005, No. 27, § 72.)