Joint Committee on Documents - 45 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 502

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     § 502.  Joint Committee on Documents.
        (a)  Establishment.--The Joint Committee on Documents shall
     consist of five governmental members and two public members. The
     governmental members shall be the Attorney General, the Director
     of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the President pro tempore
     of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and
     the Secretary of General Services, or persons severally
     designated in writing by them. The public members shall be
     appointed by the Governor from among attorneys at law or other
     members of the public who represent the class who may be
     expected to refer to the documents published pursuant to this
     part. For the purposes of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
     No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929" and its
     supplements the joint committee shall be a departmental
     administrative board in the Department of General Services.
        (b)  Compensation.--The members of the joint committee shall
     serve without compensation other than reimbursement for travel
     and other actual expenses incurred in the performance of their
     duties.
        (c)  Quorum and organization.--Four members of the joint
     committee shall constitute a quorum, and the committee shall
     select from among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman,
     and shall elect a secretary who need not be a member of the
     committee.
        (d)  Powers and duties.--The joint committee shall exercise
     the powers and perform the duties vested in and imposed upon it
     by this part and any other powers and duties vested in and
     imposed upon the committee by law.

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