08 LC 33
2365
House
Bill 1472
By:
Representative Maddox of the
127th,
Knight of the
126th,
and Cole of the
125th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend an Act creating the Lamar County Water and Sewer Authority, approved March
21, 1989 (Ga. L. 1989, p. 3942), so as to provide that one sitting member of the
Lamar County Board of Commissioners may be appointed as a member of the Lamar
County Water and Sewer Authority; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 Lamar County Water and Sewer Authority, approved March 21, 1989
(Ga. L. 1989, p. 3942), is amended by revising subsections (b) and (c) of
Section 2 of said Act to read as follows:
"(b)
The authority shall consist of five members to be appointed by the governing
authority of Lamar County which appointments may include one sitting member of
the Lamar County Board of Commissioners. Three members shall be appointed for
initial terms of three years and two members shall be appointed for initial
terms of two years. Thereafter, all appointments shall be made for terms of
three years and until the successor is appointed and qualified.
(c)
Immediately after the passage of this Act and the appointment of the members by
the governing body of Lamar County, the members of the authority shall enter
upon their duties, and as soon as it is practicable thereafter, they shall hold
an organizational meeting. The members of the authority shall elect one of
their number as chairperson and another as vice chairperson. The members shall
also elect a secretary and a treasurer, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not
be members of the authority. Three members of the authority shall constitute a
quorum. No vacancy on the authority shall impair the authority of the quorum to
exercise all of the rights and powers of and perform all of the duties and
obligations of the authority. The appointing governing authority may provide
for compensation for the services of the members it appoints in such amounts as
it may deem appropriate; provided, however, that such members shall be
reimbursed for their actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of
their duties. The authority may make rules and regulations and adopt bylaws for
its own government. The authority shall have perpetual
existence."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.