§ 17-38-403 - State Apprenticeship Committee. - Arkansas Statutes

17-38-403. State Apprenticeship Committee.

(a) The State Board of Career Education shall appoint a State Apprenticeship Committee consisting of seven (7) voting members as follows:

(1) Two (2) shall be Arkansas state-licensed journeyman plumbers;

(2) One (1) shall be a citizen member; and

(3) Four (4) shall be Arkansas state-licensed master plumbers.

(b) (1) One (1) of the voting members shall be appointed from each congressional district, and three (3) of the voting members shall be appointed from the state at large.

(2) At least three (3) of the six (6) journeyman plumber and master plumber members must be members of existing functioning local apprenticeship committees.

(c) The Director of the Department of Career Education or his or her designee shall serve as a nonvoting advisory member to the committee.

(d) Voting members shall serve four-year terms.

(e) The members of the committee may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with 25-16-901 et seq.

(f) The board shall prescribe committee members' qualifications and prescribe their duties.

(g) The board may remove a member for cause.