2025 Session Last amended: 2016 session

§ 154.002 — Officers; Compensation; Fees; Expenses

Plain-Language Summary

This law sets up how the Board of Barber Examiners runs its business. The board picks a chair and secretary each year, hires an executive secretary to keep records, and can hire inspectors and other staff. Board members must take a public oath and can be paid for up to 100 days of board work per year.

154.002 OFFICERS; COMPENSATION; FEES; EXPENSES.

The Board of Barber Examiners shall annually elect a chair and secretary. It shall adopt and use a common seal for the authentication of its orders and records. The board shall appoint an executive secretary or enter into an interagency agreement to procure the services of an executive secretary. The executive secretary shall not be a member of the board and shall be in the unclassified civil service. The position of executive secretary may be a part-time position.

The executive secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board. The expenses of administering this chapter shall be paid from the appropriations made to the Board of Barber Examiners.

Each member of the board shall take the oath provided by law for public officers.

A majority of the board, in meeting assembled, may perform and exercise all the duties and powers devolving upon the board.

The members of the board shall receive compensation, as provided in section 214.09, for each day spent on board activities, but not to exceed 20 days in any calendar month nor 100 days in any calendar year.

The board shall have authority to employ such inspectors, clerks, deputies, and other assistants as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

History:

(5846-22) 1927 c 316 s 22; 1929 c 270 s 23; 1947 c 36 s 1; 1949 c 31 s 1; 1951 c 83 s 1; 1955 c 847 s 17; 1963 c 757 s 1; 1967 c 692 s 4; 1973 c 638 s 35; 1975 c 136 s 39; 1976 c 222 s 106; 1986 c 444; 2004 c 269 art 3 s 19; 2005 c 27 s 9; 2009 c 78 art 6 s 26; 2010 c 215 art 8 s 3; 2016 c 189 art 13 s 30

History: History: (5846-22) 1927 c 316 s 22; 1929 c 270 s 23; 1947 c 36 s 1; 1949 c 31 s 1; 1951 c 83 s 1; 1955 c 847 s 17; 1963 c 757 s 1; 1967 c 692 s 4; 1973 c 638 s 35; 1975 c 136 s 39; 1976 c 222 s 106; 1986 c 444; 2004 c 269 art 3 s 19; 2005 c 27 s 9; 2009 c 78 art 6 s 26; 2010 c 215 art 8 s 3; 2016 c 189 art 13 s 30

Practical Notes

The board’s expenses come from fees paid by barbers and barber shops. A majority of board members must be present at a meeting to make decisions. The executive secretary is not a board member but handles the day-to-day work of keeping records and running the office.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes