520 - Boards of visitors.
§ 520. Boards of visitors. 1. Each of the schools shall continue to have a board of seven visitors, to be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The terms of office of such visitors shall be seven years, and they shall be so appointed that the term of one of the members of such board shall expire on the first Tuesday of February of each year. The board of visitors of a state school which was in operation on July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one and which had fifteen members shall continue to have the same number of members. 2. Members of the board of visitors shall not receive any compensation for their services, but shall receive actual and necessary traveling and other expenses, to be paid after audit as other current expenditures of the institutions. 3. Any member of a board of visitors may be removed by the governor for cause, after he has been given an opportunity to be heard. A member of a board of visitors who fails to attend three consecutive meetings of his board, unless excused by the director, shall be deemed to have vacated his office.