60-1-201 - State oil and gas board.
60-1-201. State oil and gas board.
There is created and established a state oil and gas board, composed of the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designee, who shall act as chair, the designee of the commissioner of economic and community development, the chair of the conservation commission, a member from the oil and gas industry appointed by the governor, an owner of oil or gas property appointed by the governor, and a member from the mineral industry appointed by the governor. The member from the oil and gas industry, the oil or gas property owner and the member from the mineral industry shall each serve four-year terms. In the absence of the commissioner of environment and conservation, the board shall elect one (1) of its members to serve as chair.
[Acts 1943, ch. 64, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 5240.1; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; Acts 1978, ch. 791, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 754, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 60-103; Acts 1982, ch. 654, § 3; 1983, ch. 429, § 23; 1987, ch. 257, § 6; 1991, ch. 94, § 1; 1992, ch. 693, § 22.]