Bill Text: VA HB523 | 2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, etc., Board for; membership.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-04-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) [HB523 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB523-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §54.1-403 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§54.1-403. Board members and officers; quorum.
The Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land
Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects shall be
composed of thirteen 15 members as follows: three architects,
three professional engineers, three land surveyors, two landscape architects,
and two certified interior designers, and two nonlegislative citizen
members. Each interior designer appointment to the Board may be made
from nominations submitted by the Council of Certified Virginia Interior
Designers, who shall nominate three persons for each interior designer vacancy.
In no case shall the Governor be bound to make any appointment from the
nominees.
Except for the nonlegislative citizen members appointed in
accordance with §54.1-107, Board members shall have actively practiced or
taught their professions for at least ten 10 years prior to their
appointments. The terms of Board members shall be four years.
The Board shall elect a president and vice-president from its membership.
Eight Nine Board members, consisting of two
engineers, two architects, two land surveyors, one landscape architect and,
one interior designer and one nonlegislative citizen member, shall
constitute a quorum.
