There is hereby created a State Apprenticeship and Training Council (hereinafter called "The Council") as a departmental agency in the Department of Labor and Industry to be composed of eleven members who shall be appointed by the Governor. Four members shall be representatives of employes and four members shall be representatives of employers and three members shall be representatives of the general public. Members of the council, other than the ex-officio members, shall be appointed for a term of four years and until their successors are appointed, except that two of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years, and two for a term of four years. Members of the council shall be eligible for reappointment. In case of a vacancy, the Governor shall make an appointment for the unexpired term. A Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry, the Director of the State Employment Service of the Bureau of Employment Security of the Department of Labor and Industry, the Executive Director of the Advisory Board on Problems of Older Workers of the Department of Labor and Industry, and the Coordinator of Industrial Education of the Department of Public Instruction, and Chief of the Bureau of Rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Industry, shall be ex-officio members of the council but shall not be entitled to vote, except that in the event of a tie vote, the Deputy Secretary of Labor and Industry shall have the right to cast the tie-breaking vote. The council shall organize immediately upon its appointment, and annually thereafter, by the election of one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman, one of whom shall be a representative of employes and the other a representative of employers. Each member of the State Apprenticeship and Training Council, except ex-officio members, shall receive actual traveling expenses and per diem compensation at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day for the time actually devoted to the business of the council.
43 P.S. § 90.3