§ 17.91. Composition of Joint Committee on Documents.
(a) Section 502 of 45 Pa.C.S. (relating to Joint Committee on Documents), and sections 207 and 302 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act (71 P. S. § § 732-207 and 732-302) provides that the Joint Committee shall consist of six governmental members and two public members; that the governmental members shall be the Attorney General, the General Counsel, the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Secretary, or persons severally designated in writing by them; that the public members shall be appointed by the Governor from among attorneys or other members of the public who represent the class whomay be expected to refer to the documents to be published under the act; that the members of the Joint Committee shall serve without compensation other than reimbursement for travel and other actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties; and that for the purposes of The Administrative Code and its supplements the Joint Committee shall be a departmental administrative board in the Department.
(b) Sections 207(b) and 208(c) of The Administrative Code (71 P. S. § 67(b) and 68(c)) provide that the public members of the Joint Committee shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the members of the Senate and shall hold office for terms of 4 years, from the third Tuesday of January next following the election of a Governor, and until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified.
Cross References This section cited in 1 Pa. Code § 17.97 (relating to meetings).
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