The board shall retain a full-time executive director, who shall be appointed pursuant to section 135B.11.* The executive director shall be a registered nurse. The governor, with the approval of the executive council pursuant to section 8A.413, subsection 3, under the pay plan for exempt positions in the executive branch of government, shall set the salary of the executive director.

*Reference to section 135.11B probably intended; corrective legislation is pending Section amended

[C35, §2537-g1; C39, §2537.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §147.105; C77, 79, 81, §152.2] 2003 Acts, ch 145, §197; 2008 Acts, ch 1031, §106; 2019 Acts, ch 85, §61

Referred to in §152E.2