Section 68 - Terms of office (Adm. Code Section 208)The terms of office of the persons appointed by the Governor under the preceding section shall be as follows:
(a) The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall serve during the pleasure of the Governor.(b) The term of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be four years.(c) Except as in this act otherwise provided, the heads of other administrative departments, the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, the members of independent administrative boards and commissions, of departmental administrative boards and commissions, and of advisory boards and commissions, and departmental administrative officers, shall hold office for terms of four years, from the third Tuesday of January next following the election of a Governor, and until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified: Provided, That the term of the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police appointed prior to the third Tuesday of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, shall expire upon that date, or as soon thereafter as his successor shall have been appointed and qualified.1929, April 9, P.L. 177, art. II, § 208. Amended 1937, June 29, P.L. 2436, § 1; 1943, April 28, P.L. 94, § 4. Affected 1980, Oct. 15, P.L. 950, No. 164. § 505.