74-3004. State banking board; qualifications; appointment, senate confirmation, residence requirements; terms; vacancies. (a) There is hereby created a state banking board which shall be composed of nine members. Six members of the board shall be bankers with not less than five years' actual banking experience in a state bank in this state and three shall represent the public interest in the regulation, operation and control of state banks and trust companies. All members representing the public interest shall be selected from the state at large. No nonbanker member shall concurrently serve as an officer or director in any state or national bank or trust company wherever located. One of the nine members shall be elected annually as chairperson of the board. The board shall be appointed by the governor. Persons appointed to the board shall be subject to confirmation by the senate as provided in K.S.A. 75-4315b, and amendments thereto. Except as provided by K.S.A. 46-2601, and amendments thereto, no person appointed to the board shall exercise any power, duty or function as a member of the board until confirmed by the senate. No more than five members of the board shall be from the same political party. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4315c, and amendments thereto, of the six banker members, the governor shall appoint one from each Kansas congressional district as presently constituted and the remainder from the state at large. Appointment of nonbanker members shall be made with due consideration for achieving representation of the various geographic sectors of the state.

(b) (1) Terms of members of the board shall be for three years. Each member shall serve until a successor is appointed and confirmed. Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall serve more than two full three-year terms as a member of the board.

(2) In the event of a vacancy on the board, the governor shall appoint a new member of the same qualification to fill the unexpired term. The mid-term appointment of a new board member to serve an unexpired term created by such a vacancy shall not be considered a full term for purposes of the two-term limit.

History: L. 1947, ch. 102, § 100; L. 1961, ch. 387, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 308, § 62; L. 1981, ch. 299, § 55; L. 1982, ch. 347, § 36; L. 1987, ch. 54, § 13; L. 1992, ch. 262, § 11; L. 1995, ch. 241, § 11; L. 2001, ch. 87, § 15; L. 2017, ch. 7, § 1; July 1.