STATE AID AND CHARITIES. 1123

1985, ch. 586, sec. 8D.

8D. The Board of State Aid and Charities, shall be empowered to
create in each county a County Welfare Board to be known as such with the
name of the county prefixed thereto, which Board shall be an administra-
tive department of the local government. Such Boards when created shall
have authority to administer public assistance and general outdoor relief
and service to families and individuals in need, including the administra-
tion of relief under the mothers' assistance law, the administration of
old age pension relief, the administration of relief to the blind and other
handicapped and needy, and the care of neglected, dependent, and delin-
quent children, which care shall include the rendering of probation service
to juvenile courts or other courts having jurisdiction over minors.

1935, ch. 586, sec. 8E.

8E. Each County Board shall consist of seven persons, one of whom
shall be a County Commissioner of the county in which such Board is to
function. Said County Commissioner shall be an ex-officio member of
the Board, and each year the Board of County Commissioners shall desig-
nate which of its members shall so serve. All members of the County
Boards shall serve without pay.

The members of each County Board, aside from the County Commis-
sioner serving thereon, shall serve for three years and be eligible for re-
appointment. With the establishment of said Board, two persons shall
be appointed to serve for one year, two persons shall be appointed to serve
for two years, and two persons shall be appointed to serve for three years.
Thereafter the vacancies created yearly by the retiring two members shall
be immediately filled in the manner hereinafter provided for.

The members of said Board, other than the County Commissioners serv-
ing thereon, shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners
from a list submitted by the Board of State Aid and Charities, as herein-
after provided. In order that the initial membership in the County
Boards may be established, the Board of State Aid and Charities after
conference with the Board of County Commissioners of each county shall
submit to the Board of County Commissioners of each county in this State
a list of twelve residents thereof, six of whom shall be immediately selected
by the Board of County Commissioners for the terms herein provided.

Thereafter, the Board of State Aid and Charities after conference as
aforesaid shall submit yearly to the Board of County Commissioners of
each county a list of four persons, two of whom shall be selected by the
Board of County Commissioners for the terms herein provided.

In case of a vacancy occurring in the membership of any County
Board, the Board of County Commissioners of the county concerned shall
forthwith proceed to appoint the requisite number or numbers from a list
to be submitted by the Board of State Aid and Charities, which list shall
contain twice the number of persons to be selected. Provided, however,