34:1B-24 Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
3. a. There is hereby established in but not of the Division of Business Assistance, Marketing, and International Trade in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority a Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
b. The commission shall consist of eight public members, no more than four of whom shall be members of the same political party, who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the Chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or their designees serving in an ex officio capacity. The Governor shall appoint from the ten members a chairman who shall serve in that office at the pleasure of the Governor.
c. The public members of the commission shall be appointed initially for the following terms: three members for a term of two years; three members for a term of three years; and two members for a term of four years. The initial members shall serve from the date of the original appointment for the aforementioned specified terms and until their respective successors shall be duly appointed and qualified. The term of each such appointed member shall be designated by the Governor at the time of his appointment. The successors to the initially appointed members shall each be appointed for a term of four years, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the unexpired term.
d. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but the commission may reimburse its members for necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.
L.1977, c.44, s.3; amended 1979, c.199, s.72.