The following boards are merged and consolidated in the Department of Occupational Standards:  The Louisiana Homeopathic State Board of Medical Examiners, the Board of Architectural Examiners, the Louisiana Real Estate Board, the State Board of Osteopathy, and the State Board of Library Examiners.  

The several examining boards enumerated in this Section are continued.  They shall approve all examinations for licenses before they are given and shall authorize the issuance, suspension, and revocation of licenses to practice in their respective fields, before action thereupon shall be deemed effective.  Their decisions in such matters are final and conclusive.  They may adopt rules within the scope of their powers, on their own initiative, after giving reasonable opportunity to the director to make recommendations thereon and after giving due consideration to any such recommendations made by the director.  

The members shall be compensated at a rate of not more than twenty dollars a day for each meeting; but a member attending two meetings on the same day shall not be compensated for more than one meeting on that day.  They shall also be reimbursed for their actual expenses covering travel, meals, lodging and other incidental expenses incurred while attending said board meetings.  

Amended by Acts 1956, No. 547, §1.