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The membership of the Board shall be representative of the practices of psychology and shall consist of nine members as follows: five persons who are licensed as clinical psychologists, one person licensed as a school psychologist, one person licensed in any category of psychology, and two citizen members. At least one of the seven psychologist members of the Board shall be a member of the faculty at an accredited institution of higher education in the Commonwealth actively engaged in teaching psychology. The terms of the members of the Board shall be four years.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":312750,"text":"The Board of Psychology shall regulate the practice of psychology. The membership of the Board shall be representative of the practices of psychology and shall consist of nine members as follows: five persons who are licensed as clinical psychologists, one person licensed as a school psychologist, one person licensed in any category of psychology, and two citizen members. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 608 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1976 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 7 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1981, chapter 447; in 1982, chapter 165; in 1985, chapter 159; in 1986, chapters 464 and 510; in 1988, chapters 42 and 765; in 1996, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0937\">937<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0980\">980<\/a>; in 2019, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0169\">169<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":244001,"object_type":"law","relational_id":87336,"identifier":"54.1-3603","token":"54.1\/III\/36\/54.1-3603","url":"\/54.1-3603\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-3603\/","token":"54.1\/III\/36\/54.1-3603","dublin_core":{"Title":"Board of Psychology; membership","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-3603","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> of Psychology shall regulate the <span class=\"dictionary\">practice of psychology<\/span>. 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