(2009)

You have requested our opinion concerning appointments to the Citizens' Advisory Council for the Baltimore Corridor Transit Study — Red Line ("Advisory Council"). In particular, you inquired whether alternate members may be designated by an appointing authority to serve on the Advisory Council.

For the reasons explained below, we conclude that the legislation establishing the Advisory Council does not authorize the officials charged with appointing the Council's membership to name alternate members. Nor may the members themselves delegate their role on the Advisory Council to someone else.

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