PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED BY PERSONS

DESIRING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD

In order to maintain decorum at Board meetings, and to conform with applicable law, the following procedure is to be followed:

1.         At the time designated for speakers to address the Board, speakers will be called upon to speak one at a time from the sign up sheet.

            2.         Each speaker will be allotted five minutes only. 

3.         If there are written materials for the Board members, leave them on the sign up sheet table, do not hand out to Board members. 

4.         The Board will listen to each speaker.  At the conclusion of the presentation, if any Board member has a question of any speaker, the speaker will be recognized for a response. 

5.         The Board will not enter into a discussion or debate with any speaker at that time, at that meeting. 

6.         The President will take the matter under advisement, and if appropriate, will refer the matter to the Executive/Management Committee for review. 

7.         If any speaker disrupts the meeting so that the orderly conduct of the meeting is compromised, the President will ask that the speaker be removed from the room. 

8.         If any speaker continues to interrupt the orderly conduct of the meeting, the President will advise the speaker that if the interruption continues, the President will ask that the speaker be arrested forthwith for willfully disrupting governmental processes, which is a misdemeanor.  (See attached) 

Adopted by the West Virginia Board of Medicine

January 10, 2000

§61-6-19. Willful disruption of governmental processes.

If any person willfully interrupts or molests the orderly and peaceful process of any department, division, agency or branch of state government or of its political subdivisions, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county or regional jail not more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned: Provided, That any assembly in a peaceable, lawful and orderly manner for a redress of grievances shall not be a violation of this section.