Section 12-D. Advisory council on farm labor safety

1. There is hereby
  established in the department of labor an advisory council on farm labor
  safety to make a study and investigation of the  problems  of  providing
  adequate  protection  to  farm  workers  against injuries arising out of
  their employment. Such study and investigation shall  include:  (a)  the
  unique  and special conditions involved in farm safety; (b) the need for
  education and training programs  for  the  protection  of  farm  workers
  against  accidents;  (c)  the  identification  of  areas  where existing
  educational and training programs are insufficient to  provide  adequate
  protection  to  farm  workers  against  accidents;  (d)  the  methods of
  encouraging farmers and farm groups  to  establish  such  education  and
  training programs; and (e) all matters and approaches for the protection
  of   farm   workers   against   accidents  referred  by  the  industrial
  commissioner.
    2. The advisory council shall consist of ten members appointed by  the
  industrial commissioner. The members shall be representative of farmers,
  growers,  farm  workers  and  other  persons  and  groups concerned with
  agricultural safety. One of the members shall be designated as  chairman
  by  the  industrial commissioner. The chairman of the board of standards
  and  appeals,  the  commissioner  of  agriculture   and   markets,   the
  commissioner of education, and the dean of the college of agriculture at
  Cornell  University,  or  their  designated  representatives,  shall  be
  additional members of the council, who shall serve by  virtue  of  their
  positions, without voting power.
    The  industrial commissioner shall designate an officer or employee of
  the department of labor to act as secretary of the advisory council, who
  shall not be a member of such council and  who  shall  not  receive  any
  additional compensation therefor.
    3.  The  advisory  council may take testimony, subpoena witnesses, and
  require the production of books, records and papers, and hold public  or
  private hearings.
    4. The advisory council may request and shall receive such assistance,
  service  and  data  from  any  agency of the state or from any political
  subdivision thereof  as  will  enable  it  properly  to  carry  out  its
  activities hereunder and effectuate the purposes herein set forth.
    5.  The  advisory  council  shall,  from  time  to  time, but not less
  frequently than on December first of each year, submit a report  to  the
  industrial  commissioner,  and  shall submit a final report on or before
  March thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-two.  Such  reports  may
  include  such  recommendations  as  the council finds appropriate on the
  basis of its studies and investigations.
    6. The appointed members of the  advisory  council  shall  receive  no
  compensation  for  their  services but shall receive in lieu of expenses
  incurred in the performance of their duties the sum of sixty dollars for
  each day or part thereof spent in attendance at meetings or otherwise in
  the work of the council, but no member shall receive in excess of twelve
  hundred dollars during any one fiscal year.
    7. The advisory council may adopt rules and regulations to govern  its
  own proceedings. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of
  the  council,  which  shall  show the name of each member present at the
  meetings and every matter considered by the council and the action taken
  thereon. Such records shall be filed in the office of the  secretary  of
  the department of labor.
    * NB Expired March 31, 1972