§ 41-10-265 — Members, Directors and Officers of Authority; Quorum; Vacancies; No Additional Salary for Service to Authority; Effect of Resolutions; Record of Proceedings; Establishment of Legislative Oversight Committee

The applicants named in the application and their respective successors in office shall constitute the members of the authority. The Governor shall be the chair of the authority, the Chief Justice shall be the vice chair of the authority, and the Director of Finance shall be the secretary of the authority. The State Treasurer shall be the treasurer of the authority but shall not be a member of the authority. The authority, at its option, may appoint an assistant secretary who shall not be a member of the authority. The members of the authority shall constitute all the members of the board of directors of the authority, which shall be the governing body of the authority. The presence of any three members of the said board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. No vacancy in the membership of the board of directors or the voluntary disqualification or abstention of any member thereof shall impair the right of a quorum of the board of directors to act. Should any person holding any state office named in this section cease to hold such office by reason of death, resignation, expiration of his or her term of office, or for any other reason, then his or her successor in office shall take his or her place as a member, officer, or director, as the case may be, of the authority. No member, officer, or director of the authority shall draw any salary in addition to that now authorized by law for any service he or she may render or for any duty he or she may perform in connection with the authority. All resolutions adopted by the board of directors shall constitute actions of the authority, and all proceedings of the board of directors shall be reduced to writing by the secretary or assistant secretary of the authority and shall be recorded in a substantially bound book and filed in the office of the Director of Finance. Copies of such proceedings, when certified by the secretary of the authority under the seal of the authority, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein certified.
There shall be established a legislative oversight committee to provide consultation and advice to the board of directors concerning the efficient operation of the authority. The oversight committee shall consist of three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, at least one of which shall be a member of the Ways and Means Committee and one of which shall be a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and three members of the Senate appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, at least one of which shall be a member of the Committee on Finance and Taxation and one of which shall be a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. After their initial appointment, the members of the oversight committee shall be named at each organizational session of the Legislature, and all members shall serve until their successors are properly qualified. All members of the oversight committee shall be entitled to their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members of the committee.

Legislative History

(Acts 1986, No. 86-420, p. 627, §6.)