67-5b-105 - Local advisory boards -- Membership. - Utah Statutes

67-5b-105. Local advisory boards -- Membership.
(1) The cooperating public agencies and other persons shall make up each center's localadvisory board, which shall be composed of the following people from the county or area:
(a) the local center director or the director's designee;
(b) a district attorney or county attorney having criminal jurisdiction or any designee;
(c) a representative of the attorney general's office, designated by the attorney general;
(d) a county sheriff or a chief of police or their designee;
(e) the county executive or the county executive's designee;
(f) a physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery under Section 58-67-301, UtahMedical Practice Act, or Section 58-68-301, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act;
(g) a licensed mental health professional;
(h) a criminal defense attorney;
(i) at least four members of the community at large provided, however, that the stateadvisory board may authorize fewer members, although not less than two, if the local advisoryboard so requests;
(j) a guardian ad litem or representative of the Office of Guardian Ad Litem, designatedby the director; and
(k) a representative of the Division of Child and Family Services within the Departmentof Human Services, designated by the employee of the division who has supervisoryresponsibility for the county served by the center.
(2) The members on each local advisory board who serve due to public office asprovided in Subsections (1)(b) through (e) shall select the remaining members. The members oneach local advisory board shall select a chair of the local advisory board.
(3) The local advisory board shall not supersede the authority of the contracting publicagency as designated in Section 67-5b-104.
(4) Appointees and designees shall serve a term or terms as designated in the bylaws ofthe local advisory board.

Amended by Chapter 32, 2009 General Session