Each year at the same meeting that a chairman is elected, the members of the commission shall elect a vice-chairman from their number. The vice-chairman thus elected shall serve in that capacity for the same year during which the chairman elected under section 8007 shall serve, and the vice-chairman so elected shall preside in the absence of the chairman. The vice-chairman may, at the request of the chairman, preside at a meeting notwithstanding that the chairman is present at that meeting.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 21, § 8008