Defining Administrative Officer (Resolution No. 105-4-09)

May 19, 2009 5:32 pm Topics: Resolutions

Resolution No. 105-4-09
Title: Defining “Administrative Officer”
Action: Passed

Whereas, the term “administrative officer” is used in the NABP Constitution and Bylaws to broadly define the executive director or chief administrative officer or chief executive officer of a member board; and

Whereas, the need to clarify the definition of “administrative officer” has arisen; and

Whereas, the Model State Pharmacy Act and Model Rules of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (Model Act) recommends that every state board of pharmacy employ a permanent administrative official, an executive director who is a currently licensed pharmacist, to perform and supervise the administrative duties and functions for which the board is responsible on a day-to-day basis; and

Whereas, the Model Act recommends that the executive director be responsible for the performance of the administrative functions of the board and such other duties as the board may direct; and

Whereas, the Model Act recommends that the board of pharmacy may, at its discretion, employ persons, in addition to the executive director, in such other positions or capacities as it deems necessary to the proper conduct of board business and to the fulfillment of the board’s responsibilities;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the NABP Executive Committee develop and submit a proposed amendment to the Constitution and Bylaws to define the term “administrative officer” as the individual appointed or elected to serve as the chief administrative officer or executive director of a board of pharmacy and to further clarify that each board may have only one chief administrative officer/executive director within the governance of NABP.

(Resolution passed at the NABP 105th Annual Meeting, Miami, FL)