Section 11 Boating and recreational vehicle safety advisory board
Section 11. There is hereby established within the office of law enforcement an advisory board to be designated as the boating and recreational vehicle safety advisory board. The board shall consist of seven members to be appointed by the governor, two of whom shall be representative of the boating public each of whom shall hold a certificate of number issued pursuant to section three of chapter ninety B, one of whom may represent the harbormaster’s association; two members shall represent the recreational boating business, one of whom shall operate a boat dealership; one member shall represent a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle dealership; one member shall represent the snowmobile users; and one member may represent the all-terrain vehicle users. Each member shall serve for a term of three years. The chairman of the board shall be appointed, from the seven members, annually by the governor, and in the absence of same shall be designated by the director. Board members shall be appointed or reappointed for terms of three years.
The boating and recreational vehicle safety advisory board shall meet at least quarterly and four members in attendance shall constitute a quorum. The chiefs of enforcement of the coastal enforcement bureau and the inland enforcement bureau established under section six of chapter twenty-one, or their designees, shall attend all meetings of said board and shall provide such information as said board shall request.
Said board shall review the budgetary recommendations of the director and the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs concerning the expenditure of federal funds allocated to the division for recreational boating safety each fiscal year prior to the submission of such recommendations to the secretary or the governor, as the case may be. In the event said board disapproves of any such recommendation it may file a report noting its objection and such report shall be transmitted to the governor and to the house and senate committees on ways and means.