37-51-201. Chairman -- seal -- records -- prohibition on membership in real estate associations. (1) The members of the board shall elect a chairman from among their number.
     (2) The board shall adopt a seal of a design as it shall prescribe. Copies of records and papers kept by the department, certified by the chairman and authenticated by the seal of the board, shall be received in evidence in courts with like effect as the original. Records of the board are open to public inspection under rules it prescribes.
     (3) The department shall keep a record of proceedings, transactions, communications, and official acts of the board; be custodian of the records of the board; and cause to be performed other duties as the board, on the written request of two or more members of the board or at other times as the chairman in his discretion, considers necessary.
     (4) Neither the chairman nor an employee of the department hired to provide services to the board may be an officer or paid employee of any real estate association or group of real estate dealers or brokers.

     History: (1)En. 66-1927.1 by Sec. 2, Ch. 378, L. 1977; Sec. 66-1927.1, R.C.M. 1947; (2) thru (4)En. Sec. 4, Ch. 250, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 179, Ch. 350, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 36, Ch. 439, L. 1975; Sec. 66-1927, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1927(2), (4), 66-1927.1.