259.020.  Council membership. — The member entities in section 259.010 shall be represented on the council by the executive head of each respective entity, except that:

  (1)  The Missouri University of Science and Technology shall be represented by a professor of petroleum engineering employed at the university;

  (2)  The Missouri Independent Oil and Gas Association shall be represented by a designated member of the association; and

  (3)  The public members shall be appointed to the council by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate.  Both public members shall have an interest in and knowledge of the oil and gas industry, and both shall be residents of Missouri.  

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The executive head of any member state agency, the professor of petroleum engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the member from the Missouri Independent Oil and Gas Association may from time to time authorize any member of the state agency's staff, another professor of petroleum engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology or another member of the Missouri Independent Oil and Gas Association, respectively, to represent it on the council and to fully exercise any of the powers and duties of the member representative.