§ 2-24. Term of chairperson; resignation of commissioner to run in another post.

(a)

The first members of the reconstituted Board of Commissioners of Cobb County shall be elected as provided in the subsection. The chairperson and the first members from commissioner districts 2 and 4 shall be elected at the general election on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November 2004. The chairperson and those members of the board elected thereto from commissioner districts 2 and 4 in November 2004 shall take office the first day of January immediately following that election and shall serve for initial terms of office which expire December 31, 2008, and upon the election and qualification of their respective successors. The first members from commissioner districts 1 and 3 shall be elected at the general election on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November 2006. Those members of the board elected thereto from commissioner districts 1 and 3 in November 2006 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 members of the board whose terms of office are to expire shall be elected at the time of the state-wide 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 each. 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.

(b)

All members of the board who are elected thereto shall be nominated and elected in accordance with O.C.G.A. tit. 21, ch. 2, the Georgia Election Code.

(c)

Commissioner districts 1 through 4, as they exist immediately prior to January 1, 2004, shall continue to be designated as commissioner districts 1 through 4, respectively, but as newly described under this Act, and on and after January 1, 2004, such members of the board serving from those former commissioner districts shall be deemed to be serving from and representing their respective districts as newly described under this section.

(1964 Ga. Laws (Ex. Sess.) (Act No. 22), page 2075, § 4; 1993 Ga. Laws (Act No. 213), page 4616, § 1; 2003 Ga. Laws (Act No. 139), page 3808, § 1(4))