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.