1998 Minnesota Statutes

     44A.01 World trade center corporation. 

    Subdivision 1.    Establishment.  The Minnesota world 
 trade center corporation is a public corporation established to 
 facilitate and support Minnesota world trade center programs and 
 services and to promote the Minnesota world trade center.  The 
 corporation is a state agency, but is not subject to chapters 
 14, 16A, 16B, 16C, 43A, and 179A.  

    Subd. 2.    Board membership.  The corporation is 
 governed by a board of directors consisting of: 

    (1) four members, representing the international business 
 community, elected to three-year terms by the association of 
 members established under section 44A.023, subdivision 2, clause 
 (5); 

    (2) four members, representing the international business 
 community, appointed by the governor, to serve at the governor's 
 pleasure; 

    (3) the mayor of St. Paul or the mayor's designee; 

    (4) the commissioners of trade and economic development, 
 agriculture, and commerce; 

    (5) the director of the office of technology; and 

    (6) three members of the house appointed by the speaker of 
 the house and three members of the senate appointed under the 
 rules of the senate, who serve as nonvoting members.  One member 
 from each house must be a member of the minority party of that 
 house.  Legislative members are appointed at the beginning of 
 each regular session of the legislature for two-year terms.  A 
 legislator who remains a member of the body from which the 
 legislator was appointed may serve until a successor is 
 appointed and qualifies.  A vacancy in a legislator member's 
 term is filled for the unexpired portion of the term in the same 
 manner as the original appointment. 

    Members appointed by the governor must be knowledgeable or 
 experienced in international trade in products or services. 

    Subd. 3.    Terms; compensation; removal.  Except as 
 provided in this section, terms, compensation, and removal of 
 members who are not legislators are as provided in section 
 15.059.  

    Subd. 4.    Organization.  The board shall elect a chair 
 from the representatives of the international business community 
 appointed by the governor, and an executive committee from its 
 members.  

    HIST: 1984 c 654 art 2 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 4 s 
 3; 1987 c 312 art 2 s 2; 1993 c 369 s 42,43; 1995 c 224 s 50; 
 1997 c 200 art 1 s 39; 1998 c 270 s 1; 1998 c 386 art 2 s 21