When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Supervisory board - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisory_board

    In civil service, a supervisory board or regulatory board is often a legislatively independent body with authority over other non-governmental boards (i.e. boards embedded within and run by industry bodies), such as found in some systems of regulated marketing, especially in the agricultural sector. The scope of supervision is to supervise ...

  3. Board of supervisors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Supervisors

    The name "Board of Supervisors" was changed to "Board of Commissioners" in 1970 to avoid confusion with township government (where the term "Supervisor" was still used). In New York, the new boards were called "county legislatures" (and their members, "county legislators"), but not every county has adopted this system.

  4. List of Texas state agencies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_agencies

    Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Texas A&M University System; Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; Texas Animal Health Commission; Texas Apiary Inspection Service; Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board; Texas Attorney General; Texas Board of Architectural Examiners; Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners; Texas Board of Nursing

  5. United States federal civil service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal...

    The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce (i.e., non-elected and non-military public sector employees) of the United States federal government's departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in 1871 (5 U.S.C. § 2101). [1]

  6. Board of directors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors

    There is a strong parallel here with the structure of government, which tends to separate the political cabinet from the management civil service. In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee ...

  7. United States Civil Service Commission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil...

    The Civil Service Commission administered the civil service of the United States federal government. [3] The Pendleton law required certain applicants to take the civil service exam in order to be given certain jobs; it also prevented elected officials and political appointees from firing civil servants, removing civil servants from the ...

  8. Policy/Career appointment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy/Career_appointment

    The legal basis for the Schedule Policy/Career appointment is a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character". The provision had been little noticed and ...

  9. Texas Commission on Law Enforcement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Commission_on_Law...

    The TCOLE Board of Commissioners formulates agency policies and makes recommendations to the Governor of Texas and the Legislature regarding related matters. Its nine members are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate, to serve without pay for staggered, six-year terms. Three members must be sheriffs, constables, or chiefs ...