PART III. STATE ETHICS COMMISSION

 

§84-21  State ethics commission established;composition.  (a)  There is established within the office of the auditorfor administrative purposes only a commission to be known as the state ethicscommission.  The commission shall consist of five members appointed by thegovernor from a panel of ten persons nominated by the judicial council.  Eachmember of the commission shall be a citizen of the United States and a residentof the State.  Members of the commission shall hold no other public office.

(b)  The chairperson of the commission shall beelected by the majority of the members of the commission.  The term of eachmember of the commission shall be for four years.  No person shall be appointedconsecutively to more than two terms as a member of the commission.  A vacancyon the commission shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term inthe same manner as the original appointment, except that the judicial councilshall nominate for gubernatorial appointment two persons for a vacancy.

(c)  No member of the commission shall holdoffice for more than one hundred and twenty days after the expiration of themember's term.  If the governor fails to appoint a person to a vacant officewithin sixty days after receipt of the list of nominees from the judicialcouncil, council shall select a person from its list of nominees to fill thevacant office, notwithstanding subsection (b) and section 26-34 to thecontrary.

(d)  The governor may remove or suspend anymember of the commission upon the filing of a written finding with thecommission, and upon service of a copy of the written finding on the member tobe removed or suspended. [L 1972, c 163, pt of §1; gen ch 1993; am L 1995, c228, §1]

 

Attorney General Opinions

 

  Member whose term has expired is entitled to hold over as ade facto officer until successor is appointed.  Att. Gen. Op. 70-1.

  For a commissioner to be reappointed to second term, judicialcouncil must submit the commissioner's name along with another.  Att. Gen. Op.70-1.