La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XLV-3749

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XLV-3749 - Delegated Duties and Responsibilities

A. The advisory committee is authorized by the board to:

1. advise and assist the board in the ongoing evaluation of the clinical exercise physiology licensing examination required by the board;

2. provide advice and recommendations to the board respecting the modification, amendment, and supplementation of rules and regulations, standards, policies and procedures respecting clinical exercise physiology licensure and practice;

3. serve as a liaison between and among the board, licensed clinical exercise physiologists, and exercise physiology professional associations;

4. receive reimbursement for attendance at board meetings and for other expenses when specifically authorized by the board;

5. evaluate organizations and entities providing or offering to provide continuing professional education programs for clinical exercise physiologists and provide recommendations to the board with respect to the board's recognition and approval of such organizations and entities as sponsors of qualifying continuing professional education programs and activities pursuant to §3759 of these rules;

6. review documentation of continuing professional education by clinical exercise physiologists, verify the accuracy of such documentation, and evaluation of and make recommendations to the board with respect to whether programs and activities evidenced by applicants for renewal of licensure comply with and satisfy the standards for such programs and activities prescribed by these rules; and

7. request and obtain from applicants for renewal of licensure such additional information as the advisory committee may deem necessary or appropriate to enable it to make the evaluations and provide the recommendations for which the committee is responsible.

B. In discharging the functions authorized under this Section, the committee and the individual members thereof shall, when acting within the scope of such authority, be deemed agents of the board. Advisory committee members are prohibited from communicating, disclosing, or in any way releasing to anyone other than the board, any information or documents obtained when acting as the agents of the board without first obtaining written authorization of the board.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XLV-3749

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 23:410 (April 1997).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:3421-3433 and 37:1270(A)(6).