2000 Alaska Statutes
Title 33 PROBATION, PRISONS, AND PRISONERS
Chapter 33.32. CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES
Sec. 33.32.070. Correctional Industries Commission.

(a) The Correctional Industries Commission is established to provide general policy direction to the correctional industries program through the commissioner of corrections. The Commission consists of nine members, seven of whom shall be appointed by the governor to serve staggered terms of four years. The appointed members must include one representative each from manufacturing, marketing, agriculture, and the general public; one ex-offender; and two representatives from organized labor, one of whom must be from the building trades and one of whom must be from the service industries. The representatives of manufacturing and marketing must be associated with businesses that are affected by the correctional industries program. The commissioner of administration is also a member, as is the commissioner of corrections who shall serve as chairperson.

(b) The Correctional Industries Commission shall meet at least four times during each fiscal year and may hold additional meetings at the call of the chairperson. Five members of the Correctional Industries Commission constitute a quorum and a vote of a majority of the quorum is necessary for the transaction of the business of the commission.

(c) Members of the Correctional Industries Commission serve without compensation, but are entitled to receive the per diem and travel allowance provided in AS 39.20.180 for attending meetings of the commission and making investigations either as a commission or individually as members of the commission at the request of the chairperson.