§ 205. Public employment relations board. 1. There is hereby created\nin the department a board, to be known as the public employment\nrelations board, which shall consist of three members appointed by the\ngovernor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate from persons\nrepresentative of the public. Not more than two members of the board\nshall be members of the same political party. Each member shall be\nappointed for a term of six years, except that of the members first\nappointed, one shall be appointed for a term to expire on May\nthirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one for a term to expire on\nMay thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, and one for a term to\nexpire on May thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-three. The governor\nshall designate one member who shall serve as chairperson of the board\nuntil the expiration of his or her term. A member appointed to fill a\nvacancy shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member whom he\nor she is to succeed.\n 2. Members of the board shall hold no other public office or public\nemployment in the state. The chairperson shall give his or her whole\ntime to his or her duties.\n 3. Members of the board other than the chairperson shall, when\nperforming the work of the board, be compensated at the rate of two\nhundred fifty dollars per day, together with an allowance for actual and\nnecessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties hereunder.\nThe chairperson shall receive an annual salary to be fixed within the\namount available therefor by appropriation, in addition to an allowance\nfor expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him or her in the\nperformance of his or her duties.\n 4. (a) The chairperson of the board may appoint an executive director\nand such other persons, including but not limited to attorneys,\nmediators, members of fact-finding boards and representatives of\nemployee organizations and public employers to serve as technical\nadvisers to such fact-finding boards, as it may from time to time deem\nnecessary for the performance of its functions, prescribe their duties,\nfix their compensation and provide for reimbursement of their expenses\nwithin the amounts made available therefor by appropriation. Attorneys\nappointed under this section may, at the direction of the chairperson of\nthe board, appear for and represent the board in any case in court.\n (b) No member of the board or its appointees pursuant to this\nsubdivision, including without limitation any mediator or fact-finder\nemployed or retained by the board, shall, except as required by this\narticle, be compelled to nor shall he or she voluntarily disclose to any\nadministrative or judicial tribunal or at the legislative hearing, held\npursuant to subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (e) of subdivision three of\nsection two hundred nine of this article, any information relating to\nthe resolution of a particular dispute in the course of collective\nnegotiations acquired in the course of his or her official activities\nunder this article, nor shall any reports, minutes, written\ncommunications, or other documents pertaining to such information and\nacquired in the course of his or her official activities under this\narticle be subject to subpoena or voluntarily disclosed; except that\nwhere the information so required indicates that the person appearing or\nwho has appeared before the board has been the victim of, or otherwise\ninvolved in, a crime, other than a criminal contempt in a case involving\nor growing out of a violation of this article, said members of the board\nand its appointees may be required to testify fully in relation thereto\nupon any examination, trial, or other proceeding in which the commission\nof such crime is the subject of inquiry.\n 5. In addition to the powers and functions provided in other sections\nof this article, the board shall have the following powers and\nfunctions:\n (a) To establish procedures consistent with the pr
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