Section 28 Metropolitan highway system advisory board to the authority
Section 28. (a) There shall be a metropolitan highway system advisory board to the authority to consist of nine persons, one of whom shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be appointed by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, one of whom shall be appointed by the mayor of the city of Boston, one of whom shall be appointed by the artery business committee, two of whom shall be appointed by the metropolitan area planning council, one of whom shall be appointed by the Massachusetts Municipal Association, one of whom shall be appointed by Move Massachusetts 2000 and one of whom shall be appointed by the Massachusetts Sierra Club. Each member of the metropolitan highway system advisory board shall have one vote. A majority of members shall constitute a quorum and the advisory board may act by such majority vote represented in the quorum.
(b) For the conduct of its business, the metropolitan highway system advisory board shall adopt and may revise and amend by-laws. The advisory board shall convene its first meeting on or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven and shall thereafter convene regular meetings in accordance with its by-laws. The advisory board shall annually elect a chairperson and vice chairperson and any other officers that the advisory board shall determine. Each member of the board shall serve for a term of two years and shall be eligible for reappointment. In the event of a vacancy, a successor shall be named by the person or organization who originally appointed the vacated member and any such successor shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. Each member of said advisory board shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed, as an expense of said advisory board, for all reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of its duties as approved by the advisory board.
(c) The purposes of the metropolitan highway system advisory board shall be to review and prepare comments on all documents submitted to it pursuant to section twenty-seven and to make recommendations to the authority within thirty days of receipt of such documents. The advisory board may hold public hearings on all matters before it.
(d) The metropolitan highway system advisory board may incur expenses, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars annually for expenditures authorized under paragraph (b) and for personnel and office expenses. Such expenses shall be paid by the authority in the current fiscal year from its operating budget and, for each year thereafter, shall be provided for in the current expense budgets of the metropolitan highway system.