§ 2-33-104 - Executive director.
2-33-104. Executive director.
(a) (1) The Executive Director of the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
(2) The executive director shall be charged with the duty of administering the fiscal provisions of this subchapter and of other laws where the functions, powers, and duties of the state agency are vested in and imposed upon the commission.
(3) The applicable provisions of the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, 19-4-101 et seq., and the Arkansas Purchasing Law, 19-11-201 et seq., as these laws relate to the financial transactions of the commission, shall be fully complied with by the executive director.
(b) The commission may, by resolution duly adopted, delegate to the executive director any of the powers or duties vested in or imposed upon it by law, and these delegated powers or duties may be exercised by the executive director in the name of the commission.
(c) Subject to the availability of funds for the purpose, the executive director shall employ and, within limitations established by the General Assembly, fix the salaries of veterinarians, animal pathologists, bacteriologists, laboratory technicians, livestock, poultry, and egg-grading inspectors, other personnel, and agents, as the commission shall deem necessary to permit it to effectively carry out the duties imposed upon it by law.
(d) (1) The executive director shall be custodian of all property held in the name of the commission and shall be ex officio disbursing agent of all funds available for its use.
(2) (A) (i) The executive director shall furnish bond to the state, with corporate surety thereon, in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), conditioned that he or she will faithfully perform his or her duties of employment and properly account for all funds received and disbursed by him or her.
(ii) An additional disbursing agent's bond shall not be required of the executive director.
(B) The bond shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and executed counterparts thereof shall be filed with the Auditor of State.
(C) The premiums on the bond shall be paid with funds made available for the use of the commission.