248.510 Tobacco research board membership -- Compensation -- Meetings --
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Quorum.
(1)The Kentucky Tobacco Research Board is hereby created. The board shall be
composed of thirteen
(13)voting members and one
(1)nonvoting member as
follows:
(a)Ten
(10)permanent members who shall be the following officeholders or
shall be designated by the following organizations: the Kentucky Farm Bureau
Federation; the Kentucky Innovations Commission; the commissioner of the
Kentucky Department of Agriculture; the dean of the University of Kentucky
College of Agriculture; the Burley Growers Cooperative Association; the
Council for Burley Tobacco; the Dark Fired Tobacco Association; the
Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation; the chairman of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture; and the chairman of the House Committee on
Agriculture and Small Business. Each officeholder and organization shall
designate an alternate who is authorized to serve when the member cannot be
present at a meeting.
(b)Three
(3)members at large, at least one
(1)of whom is a tobacco farmer in
Kentucky and at least one
(1)of whom has research and development
experience in the public or private sector, who shall be appointed by the
Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Research
Commission.
(c)One
(1)nonvoting member from the University of Kentucky, who shall be the
University of Kentucky Vice President for Research, or the Vice President's
designee. The nonvoting member of the board may be counted in determining
a quorum, but the nonvoting member shall not vote on matters before the
board.
(2)No member of the board shall receive any salary, fee, or other remuneration for his
services as a member of the board but each member shall be reimbursed for his
ordinary travel expenses, including meals and lodging, incurred in the performance
of his duties incident to implementation of the provisions of KRS 248.510 to
248.570.
(3)The term of the ten
(10)members designated in paragraph
(a)of subsection
(1)of
this section shall not change but they shall be permanent members in terms of the
organizations and offices named. At-large members and the tobacco industry
member shall serve two
(2)year terms.
(4)The board shall elect, by a majority vote of the thirteen
(13)voting members, a
chairman and a vice chair. The chairman shall be the presiding officer of the board,
shall preside at all meetings, and coordinate the functions and activities of the
board. The chairman shall be elected or reelected annually and shall be a permanent
member or an at-large member of the board. The vice chair shall conduct meetings
in the absence of the chairman. The board shall have such other organization as
deemed necessary and approved by the board.
(5)Meetings of the board shall be held at least quarterly but may be held more
frequently as deemed necessary subject to call by the chairman or by request of a
majority of the board members. Board meetings shall concern, among other things,
policy matters relating to research projects and programs, research progress reports,
authorization of projects and financial plans, and such other matters as necessary to
carry out the intent of KRS 248.510 to 248.570.
(6)Seven
(7)members of the board shall constitute a quorum for doing business. Each
member shall have one
(1)vote and a majority vote of the members present shall
control on all questions.