Section 55 - Advisory Board(a) General. The Director of the Department of General Services may appoint an advisory board whose duty it is to serve in an advisory capacity to the office in connection with technical or structural matters and with reference to regulations and requirements pertaining to the administration of the act. This board shall also act as a board of review to which appeal can be made by school boards, architects, structural engineers, or other interested parties in case of disagreement with the decisions, rulings or acts of the office.(b) Membership. The said board shall consist of 10 members appointed by the director and four ex officio members who are: State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Architect, the State Fire Marshal, and the Chief Structural Engineer. Of the appointive members, four shall be structural engineers, four shall be architects, one shall be a mechanical engineer, and one shall be an electrical engineer. Two of the structural engineers and two of the architects shall be residents in Northern and Southern California, respectively. The appointive members shall serve at the pleasure of the Director of the Department of General Services. He or she may also appoint as many other ex officio members as he or she may desire. Ex officio members are not entitled to vote. Nominations for board members, qualified by close connection with public school design and construction, are invited from the California Council, American Institute of Architects; the Structural Engineers Association of California; and the Consulting Engineers Association of California.(c) Meetings. The board shall elect its own chairperson and vice chairperson and shall convene upon the call of the chairperson whenever it may be necessary in his or her judgment for the board to meet. The board shall adopt such rules of procedure as are necessary to enable it to perform the obligations delegated to it. The chairperson of the board shall at his or her discretion or upon instructions from the board designate subcommittees to study and report back to the board any technical subject or matter regarding which an independent review or further study is desired or regarding which appeal is made to the board from decisions or rulings of the office. The board members will be reimbursed from the fund defined in Sections 39147 and 81137 of the act for their reasonable actual expenses in attending meetings but shall receive no compensation for their services.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 21, § 55
1. Editorial renumbering of Article 5 to Article 9 to correct printing error (Register 83, No. 45).
2. Repealer of Group 3 (Articles 1-16, Sections 200 -T21-5406, not consecutive) filed 9-8-83; effective 9-15-83 pursuant to Government Code Section 11346.2(d) (Register 83, No. 40). Note: Authority cited: Sections 39152 and 81142, Education Code. Reference: Sections 39152 and 81142, Education Code.
1. Editorial renumbering of Article 5 to Article 9 to correct printing error (Register 83, No. 45).
2. Repealer of Group 3 (Articles 1-16, Sections 200-T21-5406, not consecutive) filed 9-8-83; effective 9-15-83 pursuant to Government Code Section 11346.2(d) (Register 83, No. 40).