Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §9853, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 687, Pt. E, §8, is further amended to read:

1. Appointment and membership. The membership of the board consists of 2 radiologists; 2 radiographers; one nuclear medicine technologist; one radiation therapy technologist therapist; one radiation physicist;; and 2 public members who are not affiliated with the medical or any allied health profession. The Governor may appoint these members from lists submitted by the following organizations or their successors.

A. Radiologist members may be appointed from lists submitted by the Maine Radiological Society.

B. The radiation physicist member may be appointed from lists submitted by the Maine Radiological Society.

C. Radiologic technologist members may be appointed from lists submitted by the Maine Society of Radiologic Technologists, the Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologists and the New England Society of Radiation Therapy Technologists.

The list submitted by each organization must include at least 2 names for each position to be filled from that organization.

The consumer members are appointed by the Governor.

Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §9853, sub-§6, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 524, is amended to read:

A. To review the qualifications of applicants for licensure and to license radiographers, nuclear medicine technologists and radiation therapy technologists therapists who qualify under this chapter;

Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §9853, sub-§6, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 524, is amended to read:

B. To conduct qualifying examinations for radiographers, nuclear medicine technologists and radiation therapy technologists therapists, and to establish passing standards;

Sec. 5. 32 MRSA §9854, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 524, is amended to read: