08 LC 21
9646/AP
House
Bill 1127 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)
By:
Representative Roberts of the
154th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend an Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Irwin County, approved
February 16, 1933 (Ga. L. 1933, p. 571), as amended, particularly by an Act
approved March 25, 1996 (Ga. L. 1996, p. 3611), so as to provide for staggered
elections for the chairperson and members of the board; to provide for the
submission of this Act to the United States Attorney General; to provide for an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
An
Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Irwin County, approved February 16,
1933 (Ga. L. 1933, p. 571), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March
25, 1996 (Ga. L. 1996, p. 3611), is amended by striking Section 2 and inserting
in its place a new Section 2 to read as follows:
"SECTION
2.
The
chairperson and members of the board of commissioners serving on July 1, 2008,
shall continue to serve for the remainder of their terms and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. The chairperson and those members of
the board elected thereto from Commissioner Districts 1 and 3 in 2008 shall take
office the first day of January immediately following that election and shall
serve for initial terms of office which expire December 31, 2012, and upon the
election and qualification of their respective successors. Those members of the
board elected thereto from Commissioner Districts 2 and 4 in 2008 shall take
office the first day of January immediately following that election and shall
serve for initial terms of office which expire December 31, 2010, and upon the
election and qualification of their respective successors. Those and all future
successors to the chairperson and members of the board whose terms of office are
to expire shall be elected at the general election immediately preceding the
expiration of such terms, shall take office the first day of January immediately
following that election, and shall serve for terms of office of four years. The
chairperson and members of the board shall serve for the terms of office
specified therefor in this subsection and until their respective successors are
elected and qualified."
SECTION
2.
It
shall be the duty of the governing authority of Irwin County to require the
attorney therefor to submit this Act, pursuant to Section 5 of the federal
Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, to the United States Attorney General for
approval.
SECTION
3.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2008.
SECTION
4.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.