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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55949</law_id><section_number>54.1-3703</section_number><catch_line>Board of Social Work; members</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="37">Social Work</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Social Work</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Social Work shall regulate the <span class="dictionary">practice of social work</span>.
		The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall be composed of nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, seven of whom shall be licensed <span class="dictionary">social workers</span> who have been in active <span class="dictionary">practice of social work</span> for at least five years prior to appointment and two of whom shall be nonlegislative citizen members at large. The terms of the members of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall be four years.</p></section></text><history>1976, c. 608, &#xA7; 54-942; 1981, cc. 447, 555; 1986, c. 464; 1988, cc. 42, 765; 2006, c. 685.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
