Membership qualifications
In the case of Bradley v. Board of Zoning Adjustment of City of Boston (1926) 150 N.E. 892, 255 Mass. 160, the court said: "There are numerous provisions of the statutes whereby the appointing power is limited to specified classes of persons; sometimes, also, with geographical limitations. For example, the board of registration in medicine must consist of graduates of a legally chartered medical college or university having the power to confer degrees in medicine, who have been engaged for ten years in the active practice of medicine, not belonging to the faculty of any medical school, and not more than three of whom shall be at one time members of the same chartered state medical society. G.L. c. 13, § 10. See, also, restrictions upon power of appointment to the board of registration of nurses (G.L. c. 13, § 13), the board of registration in optometry (section 16), board of dental examiners (section 19), board of registration in pharmacy (section 22), board of registration in veterinary medicine (section 26), board of registration in embalming (section 29).

* * * While the constitutionality of these statutes has not been established by judicial adjudication, it is significant of general understanding by the legislative and executive departments of government that so many statutes of this nature have been enacted."

Appointee to Board of Registration in Medicine who has been registered physician less than ten years does not meet requirements of this section. Op.Atty.Gen., Jan. 3, 1961, p. 81.