73-1208c. Executive director, appointment, powers and duties; compensation and expenses of commission members, executive director, officers and employees.   An executive director of the Kansas commission on veterans affairs, who shall be a veteran, shall be appointed by the commission, and shall serve at the pleasure of the commission.  Such executive director shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary fixed by the commission, with the approval of the governor. The executive director shall be the executive and administrative officer of the commission and shall be responsible for carrying out the general policies of the commission relating to furnishing services to veterans, their relatives and dependents. The executive director shall have such other powers and duties as the commission shall confer or impose upon the executive director for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

The compensation and expenses of the members of the commission and the executive director of the commission, and the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the commission, who are employed to carry out the provisions of article 12 of chapter 73 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and other expenses of administering article 12, shall be paid in accordance with appropriation acts upon vouchers approved by the executive director or by a person or persons designated by the executive director.

History: L. 1953, ch. 361, § 4; L. 1961, ch. 409, § 12; L. 1965, ch. 458, § 4; L. 1967, ch. 412, § 2; L. 1976, ch. 370, § 83; L. 1985, ch. 292, § 18; L. 1986, ch. 278, § 2; July 1.