Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-887.4

duties.

A. There is hereby established a Physical Therapy Committee to

assist the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision in

conducting examinations for applicants and to advise the Board on

all matters pertaining to the licensure, education, and continuing

education of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants

and the practice of physical therapy.

B. 1. The Physical Therapy Committee shall consist of five (5)

members who shall be appointed by the State Board of Medical

Licensure and Supervision as follows:

a. three members shall be licensed physical therapists,

b. one member shall be a licensed physical therapist

assistant, and

c. one member shall be a lay person.

2. Except for the lay appointee, each appointee shall be

selected from a list of three persons submitted for each vacancy by

the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association.

a. Members serving on the Committee on the effective date

of this act may continue serving until expiration of

their terms of office and may be reappointed if

eligible pursuant to the provisions of this act.

Members of the original Physical Therapy Committee

shall have been appointed for staggered terms of one

(1), two (2), and three (3) years, respectively.

Terms of office of each appointed member shall expire

July 1 of that year in which they expire regardless of

the calendar date when such appointments were made.

Subsequent appointments shall be made for a term of

three (3) years or until their successors are

appointed and qualified.

b. The lay member and physical therapist assistant member

initially appointed to fill the two new positions

created pursuant to this act shall be appointed for

staggered terms of office which will expire July 1,

1998, and July 1, 1999. Thereafter, members appointed

to these positions shall serve for terms of three (3)

years or until their successors are appointed and

qualified.

c. Vacancies shall be filled by the Board in the same

manner as the original appointment.

3. Each member of the Committee shall be a resident of this

state. The physical therapist and physical therapist assistant

members shall be licensed pursuant to the Physical Therapy Practice

Act for at least three (3) years prior to appointment to the

Committee. The lay member shall not be a physical therapist or a

licensed health care professional or be related by adoption, blood,

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or marriage within the third degree of consanguinity to a physical

therapist or a licensed health care professional.

4. Members of the Committee shall be reimbursed for all actual

and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duties

required by the Physical Therapy Practice Act in accordance with the

provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act.

C. The Committee shall have the power and duty to:

1. Assist in selecting and conducting examinations for

licensure, and in determining which applicants successfully passed

such examination;

2. Advise the Board on all matters pertaining to the licensure,

education, and continuing education requirements for, and practice

of physical therapy in this state;

3. Maintain a current list of approved schools of physical

therapy and physical therapist assistants; and

4. Assist and advise in all hearings involving physical

therapists or physical therapist assistants who are deemed to be in

violation of the Physical Therapy Practice Act.