§ 30:132 — Attorney for the board

§132. Attorney for the board
The attorney general shall be the attorney for the board, but the board shall have
authority to employ additional counsel and fix and pay the compensation for additional
counsel or counselors, subject, however, to the authority of the attorney general and the
secretary of the Department of Conservation and Energy to approve the counsel, whereupon
the attorney general shall issue, under his power of appointment of assistants, a commission
to the counsel as assistant attorney general. However, any contract for legal services which
exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be subject to approval by the Joint
Legislative Committee on the Budget.

Legislative History

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 384, §1; Acts 1962, No. 352, §1; Acts 1964, No. 312, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1293, §1, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.