Section 2-5-4

Administrator.

The Farmers' Market Authority is authorized to appoint an administrator who, under the supervision of the authority, shall administer the provisions of this article. The administrator shall receive a salary to be fixed as provided in Section 36-6-6, payable in installments in the same manner as the salaries of other state employees are paid, and he shall be allowed the same travel expenses in the performance of his duties as are allowed to other state employees as provided by law. The administrator, with the approval of the authority and subject to the state Merit System, shall appoint all necessary clerks, stenographers, inspectors and other employees to administer the provisions of this article. The administrator shall act as manager, secretary and custodian of all records unless the authority shall otherwise direct. The administrator shall devote his entire time to said office. The administrator, with the approval of the authority, shall fix the duties of all employees of the authority. The administrator shall be at the time of his appointment a resident of the State of Alabama, and he shall have resided in the state for the last five years continuously prior to his appointment.

(Acts 1965, No. 672, p. 1208, §4; Acts 1969, No. 270, p. 600, §1.)