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§20-1A-2. Corporation boards of directors, members, expenses, appointment, terms, qualifications; director as board chairman; meetings, quorum; executive secretary, secretary to board; professional and support staff; execution of legal documents, permits and licenses.

(a) The public land corporation shall be governed by a board of directors comprised of five members of which three shall be ex officio and two shall be appointed by the governor. The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their service thereon. The board members who are no ex officio shall be reimbursed by the director for their actual and necessary expenses incurred pursuant to their duties under this article from funds authorized for such purposes.
(b) The director of the department of natural resources shall be an ex officio member and chairman of the board of directors. The commissioner of the department of culture and history and the commissioner of the department of commerce, or their designees who shall be employees of their respective departments, shall be ex officio members of the board of directors.
(c) The governor shall appoint two members of the board of directors, with the advice and consent of the Senate, which members shall serve a term of four years: Provided, That the initial appointments shall be to terms of two and four years, respectively, which terms shall commence on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine. The members of the board of directors appointed by the governor shall be persons with a demonstrated interest and knowledge in the conservation and protection of the aesthetic, biological, geological, historical, archeological, cultural or recreational values of the public lands of the state.
(d) A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall meet at such times and places as it may determine and shall meet on call of the chairman. It shall be the duty of the chairman to call a meeting of the board on the written request of any three members thereof.
(e) The director shall appoint and supervise an executive secretary of the public land corporation, and may employ other necessary professional and support staff for the purposes of this article, who shall be employees of the department with merit system status.
An affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the corporation is required for any action of the corporation with respect to the sale or exchange of public lands or for the issuance of a lease or contract for the development of minerals, oil or gas. All actions must be taken at a scheduled meeting of the corporation held in compliance with the provisions of article nine-a, chapter six of this code.
The powers and duties of the corporation are nondelegable, except that the executive secretary may negotiate and enter into preliminary agreements on behalf of the corporation, and shall, upon authorization of the corporation, be entitled to engage in valid actions of the corporation in respect of day-to-day administrative activities. An agreement entered into by the executive secretary on behalf of the corporation is not valid until such agreement is approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of the corporation.