2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 25:341 — Establishment and location; purpose; board of directors; appointment; compensation of members; terms; oaths

CHAPTER 5.  STATE MUSEUM

§341.  Establishment and location; purpose; board of directors; appointment; compensation of members; terms; oaths

A.  The Louisiana State Museum is established as a complex of facilities in the cities of Baton Rouge, Natchitoches, New Orleans, Patterson, Thibodaux and Winnfield under the management and supervision of the office of the state museum of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

B.  The Louisiana State Museum shall be a historical, cultural, and educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, objects of art, documents, artifacts, and the like that reflect the history, art, and culture of Louisiana.

C.  The Board of Directors of the Louisiana State Museum, hereinafter referred to as the board, is hereby created in the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

D.  The Board of Directors of the Louisiana State Museum shall be composed of the following members, all of whom shall have a knowledge of and interest in art, history, and cultural restoration.  The members of the board shall be appointed by the governor as follows:

(1)  Two members shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Friends of the Cabildo.

(2)  One member shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Louisiana Historical Society.

(3)  One member shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Louisiana Historical Association.

(4)  One member shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana, Inc.

(5)  One member shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Wedell-Williams Memorial Foundation in Patterson.

(6)  Two members shall be appointed from a panel of three names submitted by the Louisiana Museum Foundation.

(7)  Eleven members shall be appointed from the state at large in such manner as to provide that membership on the board will reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the population of the state and encourage statewide representation on the board.  Three of these members shall be appointed from a list of five names recommended by the lieutenant governor.

E.  Each member appointed pursuant to Paragraph (7) of Subsection D of this Section shall serve a term concurrent with that of the governor making the appointment.  All other members shall serve four-year terms.  Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and takes office.  Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.

F.  The members of the board shall serve without compensation, but they shall receive their actual expenses incurred in attending any meeting of the board.

G.  Each member of the board shall take and subscribe to the oath of office required of state officials.

Acts 1983, No. 687, §4; Acts 1987, No. 416, §1; Acts 1990, No. 726, §1; Acts 1991, No. 9, §§1 and 3, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 318, §1, eff. June 18, 1997; Acts 2003, No. 1205, §1, eff. July 3, 2003.