California Code, Business and Professions Code - BPC § 1000-1

A board is hereby created to be known as the “State Board of Chiropractic Examiners,” hereinafter referred to as the board.  The board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor.  Each member shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have been a resident of California for five years.  Two members shall be public members.  Each licensee member shall have had at least five years of licensure in this state prior to appointment.  Each licensee member must have pursued a resident course in an approved chiropractic school or college, and must be a graduate thereof and hold a diploma therefrom.

Not more than two persons shall serve simultaneously as members of said board, whose first diplomas were issued by the same school or college of chiropractic, nor shall more than two members be residents of any one county of the state.  And no person who is or within one year of the proposed appointment has been an administrator, policy board member, or paid employee of any chiropractic school or college shall be eligible for appointment to the board.  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem in the amount provided in Section 103 of the Business and Professions Code for each day during which he is actually engaged in the discharge of his duties, together with his actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in connection with the performance of the duties of his office, such per diem, travel expenses and other incidental expenses of the board or of its members to be paid out of the funds of the board hereinafter defined and not from the state's taxes.