1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 246 Public Institutions
Section 246.02 Executive officers.

246.02 Executive officers.

Subdivision 1. The commissioner of human services shall appoint a chief executive officer for each institution under exclusive control of the commissioner and may remove a chief executive officer for misconduct, incompetency, or neglect of official duty. No such removal shall be made except upon written charges and opportunity to be heard. Every such executive officer shall have the qualifications and perform the duties now or hereafter required by law, or by rules prescribed by the commissioner of human services. The commissioner may appoint an acting chief executive officer during such interim period as is necessary to select and appoint a chief executive officer. In case of an apparent conflict between the powers conferred by law upon any executive officer of a state institution and those conferred by this chapter upon the commissioner of human services, it shall be conclusively presumed that the power belongs to the latter. When a chief executive officer is required to live on the institution grounds, the chief executive officer is entitled to residence and maintenance in addition to salary.

Subd. 2. The commissioner of human services shall act with the advice of the medical policy directional committee on mental health in the appointment and removal of the chief executive officers of the following institutions: Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center, Ah-Gwah-Ching Center, Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, St. Peter Regional Treatment Center and Minnesota Security Hospital, Willmar Regional Treatment Center, Cambridge Regional Human Services Center, Brainerd Regional Human Services Center, Minnesota Sexual Psychopathic Personality Treatment Center and until June 30, 1998, Faribault Regional Center.

Subd. 3. Repealed, 1973 c 540 s 5

Subd. 4. Within the limits of appropriations available and with the advice of the medical policy directional committee, the commissioner shall set the salary of the individual officers named in subdivision 2 according to standards of training and experience established by the commissioner. The commissioner may not reduce the salary of any officers incumbent at the time of the passage of this subdivision. In addition to salary, each officer named in subdivision 2 is entitled to reimbursement for all expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of duties.

HIST: (4405) RL s 1865; 1953 c 344 s 1; 1955 c 746 s 1; 1957 c 19 s 2; 1967 c 6 s 2; 1976 c 163 s 45,46; 1976 c 239 s 77; 1977 c 347 s 37; 1978 c 554 s 2; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 1 s 49; 1991 c 292 art 6 s 58 subd 3; 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 25; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 24; 1997 c 203 art 7 s 5