A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision may appoint the secretary to serve as Medical Advisor or hire a physician to serve as Medical Advisor to the Board and the Board staff. The Board may hire the secretary as an employee of the Board at such hours of employment and compensation as determined by the Board. The Board may hire a licensed allopathic physician to serve as the secretary or medical advisor, or both, to the Board and its staff. This position shall be in the exempt unclassified service, as provided for in subsection B of Section 840-5.5 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The secretary shall not be a member of the Board and shall not vote on Board actions.

B. The secretary of the Board shall preserve a true record of the official proceedings of the meetings of the Board. He or she shall also preserve a record of physicians licensed, applying for such license or applying for reinstatement of such license in this state showing:

1. Age;

2. Ethnic origin;

3. Sex;

4. Place of practice and residence;

5. The time spent in premedical and medical study, together with the names of the schools attended, and the date of graduation therefrom, with the degrees granted;

6. The grades made in examination for license or grades filed in application therefor; and

7. A record of the final disposition of each application for licensure.

The secretary of the Board shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, transmit an official copy of the register for the preceding calendar year, to the Secretary of State for permanent record, a certified copy of which shall be admitted as evidence in all courts of the state.

Added by Laws 1923, c. 59, p. 103, § 7, emerg. eff. March 31, 1923. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 323, § 6, eff. July 1, 1994; Laws 1995, c. 211, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2009, c. 11, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2019, c. 492, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.