§ 4. Each department shall have an officer at its head who shall be known as a director, and who shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, execute the powers and discharge the duties vested by law in his respective department. The following officers are hereby created: Director of Finance, for the Department of Finance; Director of Agriculture, for the Department of Agriculture; Director of Mines and Minerals, for the Department of Mines and Director of Public Works and Buildings, for the Department of Public Works and Buildings; Director of Public Welfare, for the Department of Public Welfare; Director of Public Health, for the Department of Public Health; Director of Trade and Commerce, for the Department of Trade and Commerce: Director of Registration and Education, for the Department of Registration and Education. 5. In addition to the directors of departments, the following executive and administrative officers, boards and commissions, which said officers, boards and commissions in the respective departments, shall hold offices hereby created and designated as follows: IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE: Assistant Director of Finance; Administrative Auditor; Superintendent of Budget; Superintendent of Department Reports. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Assistant Director of Agriculture; Chief Game and Fish Warden; The Food Standard Commission, which shall consist of the Superintendent of Foods and Dairies and two officers designated as Food Standard Officers. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: Assistant Director of Labor; Chief Factory Inspector; Superintendent of Free Employment Offices; Chief Inspector of Private Employment Agencies; The Industrial Commission, which shall consist of five officers designated Industrial Officers. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERALS: Assistant Director of Mines and Minerals; The Mining Board, which shall consist of four officers designated as Mine Officers and the Director of the Department of Mines and Minerals; The Miners' Examining Board, which shall consist of four officers, designated Miners' Examining Officers. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS: Assistant Director of Public Works and Buildings; Chief Highway Engineer; Supervising Architect; Supervising Engineer; Superintendent of Waterways; Superintendent of Printing; Superintendent of Purchases and Supplies; Superintendent of Parks. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE: Assistant Director of Public Welfare; Alienist; Criminologist; Fiscal Supervisor; Superintendent of Charities; Superintendent of Prisons; Superintendent of Pardons and Paroles. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Assistant Director of Public Health; IN THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE: Assistant Director of Trade and Commerce; Superintendent of Insurance; Fire Marshal; Superintendent of Standards; Chief Grain Inspector; The Public Utilities Commission, which shall consist of five officers designated Public Utility Commissioners; Secretary of the Public Utilities Commission. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION: Assistant Director of Registration and Education; Superintendent of Registration; The Normal School Board, which shall consist of nine officers, together with the Director of the Department and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The above named officers, and each of them, shall, except as otherwise provided in this Act, be under the direction, supervision and control of the director of their respective departments, and shall perform such duties as such director shall prescribe. § 6. Advisory and non-executive boards, in the respective departments, are created as follows: IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: A board of Agricultural Advisors, composed of fifteen persons, and a board of State Fair Advisors consisting of nine persons, not more than three of whom shall be appointed from any one county. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: A board of Illinois Free Employment Office Advisors, composed of five persons; A board of local Illinois Free Employment Office Advisors, for each free employment office, composed of five persons on each local board. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS: A board of Art Advisors, composed of eight persons; A board of Water Resource Advisors, composed of five persons; A board of Highway Advisors, composed of five persons; A board of Parks and Buildings Advisors, composed of five persons. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE: A board of Public Welfare Commissioners, composed of five per sons. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH: A board of Public Health Advisors, composed of five persons. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION: A board of Natural Resources and Conservation Advisors, composed of seven persons; A board of State Museum Advisors, composed of five persons. The members of each of the above named boards shall be officers. 7. One food standard officer shall be a representative of the Illinois food manufacturing industries and the other shall be an expert food chemist of known reputation. The fifteen agricultural advisors shall be persons engaged in agricultural industries, not excluding representatives of the agricultural press and of the State Agricultural Experiment Station. Of the five industrial officers, two shall be representative citizens of the employing class operating under the Workman's Compensation Act, two shall be representative citizens chosen from among the employees operating under such Act, and the other shall be a representative citizen not indentified [identified] with either the employing or employee classes. Of the five Illinois Free Employment Office Advisors, two shall be representatives of employers, two representatives of organized labor, and one representative citizen who is neither an employer nor an employee. The five local Illinois Free Employment Office Advisors shall have the same qualifications as the Illinois free employment office advisors. The Director of Mines and Minerals shall be a person thoroughly conversant with the theory and practice of coal mining but who is not identified with either coal operators or coal miners. Of the four mine officers, two shall be coal operators and two shall be practical coal miners. Each of the three miners' examining officers shall have had at least five years' practical and continuous experience as a coal miner and have been actually engaged as a coal miner in this State continuously for twelve months next preceding his appointment, and no one of whom shall hold any lucrative public office, Federal, State, or municipal. Of the eight art commissioners, two shall be painters, two sculptors, two architects, and two neither painters, sculptors nor architects. The director of public health shall be a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this State and shall have had at least five years' practical experience in the practice of medicine and surgery in this State and at least six years' practical experience in public health work. The assistant director of public health shall be a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this State and shall have had at least five years' practical experience in the practice of medicine and surgery in this State and at least three years' practical experience in public health work. No public utility commissioner or employee of the public utility commission shall be in the employ of or hold any official relation to any corporation or person subject in whole or in part to regulation by the commission nor shall he hold stocks or bonds in any such corporation or be in any other manner pecuniarily interested therein, directly or indirectly, and if any public utility commissioner or employee shall voluntarily become so interested, his office or employment shall ipso facto become vacant, and if any public utility commissioner or employee, becomes so interested otherwise than voluntarily he shall, within a reasonable time, divest himself of such interest. The Chief Grain Inspector shall be a person who is not interested, either directly or indirectly, in any warehouse in this State, and who is not a member of the board of trade. Neither the Director, Assistant Director, Superintendent of Registration, nor any other executive and administrative officer in the Department of Registration and Education shall be affiliated with any college or school of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, optometry, embalming, barbering, veterinary medicine and surgery, architecture, or structural engineering, either as teacher, officer or stockholder, nor shall he hold a license or certificate to exercise or practice any of the professions, trades or occupations regulated. No more than two members of the normal school board shall be residents of any one congressional district. The board of Natural Resources and Conservation shall be composed of the Director of Registration and Education, who shall be ex-officio chairman thereof, the president of the University of Illinois or his representative, and one expert each in biology, geology, engineering, chemistry and forestry, qualified by ten years' experience in practicing or teaching their several professions. The board of State Museum Advisors shall be composed of one expert each in botany, ethnology, zoology, manufacture and museum administration. § 8. Each advisory and non-executive board, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, shall, with respect to its field of work, or that of the department with which it is associated, have the following powers and duties: 1. To consider and study the entire field; to advise the executive officers of the department upon their request; to recommend, on its own initiative, policies and practices, which recommendations the executive officers of the department shall duly consider, and to give advice or make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly when so requested, or on its own initiative; 2. To investigate the conduct of the work of the department with which it may be associated, and for this purpose to have access, at any time, to all books, papers, documents, and records pertaining or belonging thereto, and to require written or oral information from any officer or employee thereof; 3. To adopt rules, not inconsistent with law, for its internal control and management, a copy of which rules shall be filed with the director of the department with which such board is associated; 4. To hold meetings at such times and places as may be prescribed by the rules, not less frequently, however, than quarterly; 5. To act by a sub-committee, or by a majority of the board, if the rules so prescribe; 6. To keep minutes of the transactions of each session, regular or special, which shall be public records and filed with the director of the department; 7. To give notice to the Governor and to the director of the department with which it is associated of the time and place of every meeting, regular or special, and to permit the Governor and the director of the department to be present and to be heard upon any matter coming before such board. 9. The executive and administrative officers whose offices are created by this Act shall receive annual salaries, payable in equal monthly. installments, as follows: |