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law as the committee feels it almost invariably will, that
it should be set forth in an executive order and submitted ,
to the General Assembly within the first ten days of a
regular session. It then takes effect as law unless spe-
cifically disapproved by a majority of all members of
either house of the General Assembly within fifty days.
Similar provisions for reorganization are incor-
porated in the Alaska Constitution and have been authorized i
i by statute in the national government, and in the states
of Michigan Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
Section 4.20 describes in general terms how the
principal departmerts of the executive branch, established
in Section 4.18, are to be managed. The first sentence
requires the heads of principal departments be single execu-
tives unless otherwise provided by law. The Coimittee
accepts the principle of public administration that it is
' undesirable that have a board administering an executive
department.
At the same time, the committee recognizes that
there are few administrative "absolutes" and that i
sometimes a plural decision making body may be desirable
when there is a need for continuity in policy or to represent