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(a) As used in this chapter, "board" means the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
  (b) Any reference in statute or regulation to the State Board of Control shall be construed to refer to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

(a) There is within the Government Operations Agency the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
  (b) The board consists of the Secretary of Government Operations or his or her designee and the Controller, both acting ex officio, and a third member who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The third member may be a state officer who shall act ex officio.
  (c) Any reference in statute or regulation to the State Board of Control shall be construed to refer to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

(a) If the third member is not a state officer acting ex officio, the member shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for every day of actual attendance at meetings of the board not in excess of eight meetings per month, together with necessary traveling expenses in attending these meetings.
  (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 1990.

The Secretary of Government Operations shall serve as chair of the board.

The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings and any member may cause his dissent to the action of the majority upon any matter to be entered upon such record.

The board shall have a seal, bearing the following inscription: "California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board." The seal shall be fixed to all writs and authentications of copies of records and to other instruments that the board directs.

A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the board. A vacancy in the board does not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the board.

The act of a majority of the board when in session as a board is the act of the board; but any investigation, inquiry, or hearing which the board has power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any member designated for the purpose by the board.

The evidence in any investigation, inquiry, or hearing may be taken by the member to whom the investigation, inquiry, or hearing has been assigned or, in his or their behalf, by an examiner designated for that purpose. Every finding, opinion, and order made by a member so designated, pursuant to investigation, inquiry, or hearing, when approved or confirmed by the board and ordered filed in its office at the State Capitol, Sacramento, is the finding, opinion, and order of the board.

(a) The board shall appoint an executive officer who shall hold office at its pleasure. It may also employ those personnel, including examiners, as it deems necessary for the performance of its duties.
  (b) The executive officer shall execute those duties and responsibilities as may be delegated by the board. The board may, except as otherwise provided in this section, delegate any statutory power of the board to the executive officer, or any examiner, employee, or committee as the board may designate, by means of a board order that is adopted by a majority of all of the board's members and that prescribes the limits of the delegation.
  (c) This section shall not be construed to authorize the board to delegate the authority to allow a claim filed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 905.2 that exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

The executive officer, or his or her designee, shall keep a full and true record of all proceedings of the board, issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and perform those other duties as the board prescribes. The executive officer and the deputy executive officers, or their designees may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents, and testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding in any part of the state.

The examiners may administer oaths, examine witnesses, issue subpenas, and receive evidence, under such rules and regulations as the board may adopt.

The board shall hold regular meetings in Sacramento and may hold other meetings at the times and places within the state as a majority of the board directs. At any meeting the board may transact any business and perform all duties imposed upon it.