2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 16 - (1601 - 1609) PESTICIDE CONTROL BOARD
1603 - Creation of pesticide control board.

 
    §  1603.  Creation  of  pesticide  control board.   1. There is hereby
  created within the department of health a pesticide control board.  Such
  board shall have seven voting members, who shall be the commissioners of
  agriculture  and  markets, commerce, conservation, education and health,
  the industrial commissioner and the commissioner of  transportation.  In
  addition,  as  advisory members, there shall be the dean of the New York
  state college of agriculture at Cornell university, the dean of the  New
  York  state  college of forestry at Syracuse university, the dean of the
  New York state veterinary college, the director of the  New  York  state
  agricultural  experiment  station at Geneva, and, to be appointed by the
  governor, six members at least one of whom shall be the dean of a  state
  university  college  of medicine, one an ecologist, one a representative
  of the pesticide manufacturing industry, one a representative of  custom
  applicators   of  pesticides  and  one  a  representative  of  organized
  conservationists.
    2. Advisory members appointed by the governor shall serve for terms of
  three years, such terms to commence on July first and to expire on  June
  thirtieth;  provided,  however,  that  of  the  advisory  members  first
  appointed, two shall be appointed for a one year term expiring  on  June
  thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-five, and two shall be appointed for a
  two  year  term  expiring on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-six.
  Each such advisory member shall hold office until  his  successor  shall
  have been appointed and qualified.
    3.  Each  voting  member  and  each ex-officio advisory member of such
  board may, by official order filed in the office of the board, designate
  a deputy or other representative in his department to perform his duties
  under this article, except as provided in  subdivision  one  of  section
  sixteen hundred six of this article.
    4.  The  members  of  the  board  or  their respective designees shall
  receive no additional compensation for their services as members of  the
  board, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred
  in the performance of their duties under this article.