1997 Minnesota Statutes

     246.02 Executive officers. 

    Subdivision 1.  The commissioner of human services shall 
 appoint a chief executive officer for each institution under 
 exclusive control of the commissioner and may remove a chief 
 executive officer for misconduct, incompetency, or neglect of 
 official duty.  No such removal shall be made except upon 
 written charges and opportunity to be heard.  Every such 
 executive officer shall have the qualifications and perform the 
 duties now or hereafter required by law, or by rules prescribed 
 by the commissioner of human services.  The commissioner may 
 appoint an acting chief executive officer during such interim 
 period as is necessary to select and appoint a chief executive 
 officer.  In case of an apparent conflict between the powers 
 conferred by law upon any executive officer of a state 
 institution and those conferred by this chapter upon the 
 commissioner of human services, it shall be conclusively 
 presumed that the power belongs to the latter.  When a chief 
 executive officer is required to live on the institution 
 grounds, the chief executive officer is entitled to residence 
 and maintenance in addition to salary. 

    Subd. 2.  The commissioner of human services shall act with 
 the advice of the medical policy directional committee on mental 
 health in the appointment and removal of the chief executive 
 officers of the following institutions:  Anoka-Metro Regional 
 Treatment Center, Ah-Gwah-Ching Center, Fergus Falls Regional 
 Treatment Center, St. Peter Regional Treatment Center and 
 Minnesota Security Hospital, Willmar Regional Treatment Center, 
 Cambridge Regional Human Services Center, Brainerd Regional 
 Human Services Center, Minnesota Sexual Psychopathic Personality 
 Treatment Center and until June 30, 1998, Faribault Regional 
 Center. 

    Subd. 3.  Repealed, 1973 c 540 s 5 

    Subd. 4.  Within the limits of appropriations available and 
 with the advice of the medical policy directional committee, the 
 commissioner shall set the salary of the individual officers 
 named in subdivision 2 according to standards of training and 
 experience established by the commissioner.  The commissioner 
 may not reduce the salary of any officers incumbent at the time 
 of the passage of this subdivision.  In addition to salary, each 
 officer named in subdivision 2 is entitled to reimbursement for 
 all expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of duties. 

    HIST: (4405) RL s 1865; 1953 c 344 s 1; 1955 c 746 s 1; 1957 c 
 19 s 2; 1967 c 6 s 2; 1976 c 163 s 45,46; 1976 c 239 s 77; 1977 
 c 347 s 37; 1978 c 554 s 2; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 
 1987 c 384 art 1 s 49; 1991 c 292 art 6 s 58 subd 3; 1Sp1993 c 1 
 art 7 s 25; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 24; 1997 c 203 art 7 s 5