Sec. 12-557d. Gaming Policy Board established; membership.
Sec. 12-557d. Gaming Policy Board established; membership. (a) There shall
be a Gaming Policy Board within the Department of Revenue Services for administrative
purposes only. Said board shall consist of five members appointed by the Governor with
the advice and consent of both houses of the General Assembly. Not more than three
members of said board in office at any one time shall be members of the same political
party. On or before July 1, 1979, the Governor shall nominate three members who shall
serve until July 1, 1981, and two members who shall serve until July 1, 1983. The
General Assembly shall confirm or reject such nominations in the manner prescribed
by section 4-7 before adjournment sine die of the 1979 regular session, except that if
the nominations cannot be acted on by both houses of the General Assembly during
said regular session, the General Assembly shall confirm or reject the nominations at a
special session which shall be called, notwithstanding sections 2-6 and 2-7, immediately
following adjournment sine die of the 1979 session reconvened in accordance with
article third of the amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, except that if no
session is held pursuant to said article, the General Assembly shall meet in special
session, notwithstanding sections 2-6 and 2-7, not later than August 1, 1979, to confirm
or reject such nominations. Any special session called pursuant to this section shall be
held for the sole purpose of confirming or rejecting the initial nominations made by the
Governor to the board. Thereafter members shall serve for a term of four years and the
procedure prescribed by section 4-7 shall apply to such appointments, except that the
Governor shall submit such nominations on or before May first, and both houses shall
confirm or reject the nominations before adjournment sine die. Members shall receive
fifty dollars per day for each day they are engaged in the business of the board and shall
be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The
executive director shall serve on the board ex officio without voting rights.
(b) To insure the highest standard of legalized gambling regulation at least four of
the board members shall have training or experience in at least one of the following
fields: Corporate finance, economics, law, accounting, law enforcement, computer science or the pari-mutuel industry. At least two of these fields shall be represented on the
board at any one time.
(c) No board member shall accept any form of employment by a business organization regulated under this chapter for a period of two years following the termination of
his service as a board member.
(d) No board member shall engage in any oral ex parte communications with any
representative, agent, officer or employee of any business organization regulated under
this chapter concerning any matter pending or impending before the board.
(e) The members of the board shall not participate actively in political management
and campaigns. Such activity includes holding office in a political party, political organization or political club, campaigning for a candidate in a partisan election by making
speeches, writing on behalf of a candidate, soliciting votes in support of or in opposition
to a candidate and making contributions of time and money to political parties.
(P.A. 79-404, S. 7, 45; P.A. 80-482, S. 344, 348; P.A. 84-546, S. 34, 173.)
History: P.A. 80-482 substituted department of revenue services for department of business regulation; P.A. 84-546
made technical changes in Subsec. (a), substituting "article third of the amendments to the constitution" for "section two
of article third of the constitution".
See Sec. 4-38f for definition of "administrative purposes only".