If authorized by the laws of his party State, the administrative head of the State Police Department of a party State may provide for the discharge of his duties and the performance of his functions on the conference, for periods none of which shall exceed 15 days, by an alternate. No such alternate shall be entitled to serve unless notification of his identify and appointment shall have been given to the conference in such form as the conference may require.
N.J.S. § 53:6-5