Section 31-5-8 Assistant state service commissioners. - Alabama Statutes

Section 31-5-8

Assistant state service commissioners.

The State Service Commissioner shall, with the approval of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs, appoint one first assistant state service commissioner, who shall be an attorney, and such other number of additional assistant state service commissioners as the state board deems necessary, who shall serve as employees in the department, subject to the rules and regulations of the state board. They shall be appointed on the basis of education, ability and experience in handling veterans' affairs, and without regard to political affiliations. Such appointees shall be residents of the State of Alabama, and shall be veterans who served on active duty for a period of 60 days or more in the military or naval forces of the United States in any war in which the United States shall have been engaged, and shall have been honorably discharged therefrom, and all subsequent appointees to such office shall be selected in like manner and shall be possessed of like qualifications.

(Acts 1945, No. 173, p. 304, §5.)