The board is authorized to select an executive officer to be known as the state market manager, who shall have the ability to operate a large business and who shall have a knowledge of the problems of the growers and distributors and have had experience in the marketing of perishable vegetables. It shall be the duty of the state market manager to manage and control such market as may be established hereunder, subject to the supervision of the board, and to employ, subject to the approval of the board, such employees as may be necessary for the efficient and economical operation and maintenance of such market. The state market manager shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the Legislature, and shall devote his entire time and attention to the discharge of his duties as such manager. He shall attend all meetings of the board and be the secretary thereof and keep the minutes thereof, and shall have custody of its books, records, papers and accounts. The state market manager shall, before assuming the duties of his office, enter into a bond in the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) payable to the State of Mississippi conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her duties.
