Alabama Administrative Code › Title 630 - ALABAMA BOARD OF OPTOMETRY › Chapter 630-X-4 - NOMINATING AND ELECTING NOMINEES FOR BOARD APPOINTMENT › Section 630-X-4-.02 - Nominations

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Nominations of
			 persons to be selected at the annual meeting shall be made in the manner herein
			 prescribed and no person shall be a nominee eligible to be selected at the
			 annual meeting unless so nominated.
(2) The secretary-treasurer shall enclose
			 with the notice required by Rule
			 630-X-4-.01 of this regulation to be mailed a brief summary of the qualifications required
			 for appointment to the Board.
(3)
			 Each licensee holding a current annual registration certificate shall have the
			 right to submit the names of two qualified optometrists he would like to be
			 considered for nomination. Each licensee desiring to submit such names shall do
			 so on a form which shall be included with the other material required by this
			 regulation to be mailed. The form shall be acknowledged as deeds of conveyances
			 are required to be acknowledged under the laws of Alabama and shall contain
			 exactly two names to be considered. The form is attached to this regulation as
			 Appendix A.
(4) Said forms shall be
			 forwarded to the secretary-treasurer by certified mail, return receipt
			 requested, in sufficient time for the secretary-treasurer to receive the same
			 at least 14 days prior to the date of the meeting. Forms received by the
			 secretary-treasurer less than 14 days prior to the date of the meeting or
			 listing the names of persons not qualified, or listing more or less than two
			 names shall be void.
(5)
			 Immediately after a date 14 days prior to the date of the meeting, the
			 secretary-treasurer shall then count and tabulate the forms so received and the
			 ten persons qualified for Board membership listed the highest total number of
			 times on valid forms shall be the nominees to be voted on at the annual
			 meeting. In the case of ties, all persons listed a sufficient number of times
			 to create the tie shall be included as a nominee regardless of the
			 number.
(6) Seven days prior to the
			 meeting, the secretary-treasurer shall mail to each licensed optometrist
			 holding a current annual registration certificate a list of persons so
			 nominated to be voted on at the annual meeting.
(7) The secretary-treasurer shall make
			 available at his office and at the annual meeting all such forms received by
			 him (valid and invalid) for inspection by any optometrist licensed in Alabama,
			 in person or by attorney with written authorization, and shall make no
			 disposition thereof until at least March 1 of the following year.
(8) In addition to the method hereinabove
			 prescribed, a qualified person may be nominated at the annual meeting upon the
			 written petition of ten licensed optometrists holding current annual
			 registration certificates and in attendance at the meeting. The form for such
			 petition is attached to this regulation as Appendix B and shall be made
			 available at the meeting by the secretary-treasurer. No vote shall be taken at
			 the annual meeting until 30 minutes after the time specified by the Board for
			 it to convene in order to allow persons to secure and submit the necessary
			 petitions for nominations. In order for such nominations to be valid, the
			 petition must be presented to the secretary-treasurer within 30 minutes after
			 the meeting convenes. Upon the secretary-treasurer verifying that each person
			 signing the petition holds a current annual registration certificate and is in
			 attendance at the meeting and that the nominee is qualified, the name of the
			 person so nominated will be added to those previously nominated.
(9) Only those persons nominated in one of
			 the ways hereinabove provided shall have their names included on the ballot for
			 voting at the annual meeting.
(10)
			 Any person who is nominated by either method and who does not wish to be
			 considered, may have his name removed from the list of nominees by request made
			 in person at the meeting or by previous written request to the
			 secretary-treasurer.
Author:
Dr. Larry Carter
Previous rule (same title) filed September 13, 1982.
Amended:
Filed March 6, 1985. Repealed: Filed July 9,
				  1990.
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, § 34-24-40.