§381-4  Appointment of emergency board. Following receipt of a notice of impasse from either party as specified insection 381-3, the director of labor and industrial relations shall forthwithrequest each of the parties to designate in writing within five days a personto serve as a member of an emergency board.  The designation shall be filed inwriting with the director.  The person designated by the public utilityemployer shall not be an officer or director of the company or other personnormally acting in an official capacity with the utility, and the person namedby the employees shall not be an employee of the utility or a representative ofits employees.  The two persons so appointed shall within three days select animpartial person to serve with them on the emergency board.  The third personso selected shall act as chairperson.  If either the public utility employer orthe employees fail to designate a member of the board, or if the two designatedmembers fail to agree upon a third, the governor shall, within twelve daysafter the director has requested the parties to appoint members to the board,appoint such member or members.

Members of the board shall receive compensationat the rate of $15 for each day actually spent by them in the work of theboard, together with necessary travel and subsistence expense.  Payment shallbe made by the director out of funds made available to the department of laborand industrial relations, and upon request of the board the department shallfurnish necessary stenographic services. [L 1949, c 146, pt of §1; RL 1955,§91-5; HRS §381-4; gen ch 1993]