§ 2-263. Membership; organization.

(a)

The authority shall consist of nine members who shall serve as members of Post 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, respectively. The governing authority of Cherokee County shall appoint persons for Posts 1, 2, and 3; the governing authority of Cobb County shall appoint persons for Posts 4, 5, and 6; and the governing authority of Bartow County shall appoint persons for Posts 7, 8, and 9. Each governing authority shall initially appoint two members for terms of two years and one member for a term of four years.

(b)

Except for the initial members of the authority, all subsequent members of the authority shall serve for a term of four years or until their successors are selected and qualified.

(c)

Vacancies on the authority shall be filled in the same manner described in subsection (a) of this section. The appointment of any person to fill an expired term shall be only for the remainder of such term and until a successor is appointed and qualified.

(d)

The governing authorities of Cherokee, Cobb, and Bartow counties shall proceed to select the members of the authority immediately after the effective date of this Act.

(e)

The members shall organize and enter upon the performance of their duties.

(f)

The authority shall elect one of its members as chair and another as vice chair and shall elect a secretary-treasurer, who may, but need not necessarily, be a member of the authority.

(g)

Five members of the authority shall constitute a quorum, and no vacancy on the authority shall impair the right of the quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the authority at every meeting, and in every instance a majority vote shall authorize any legal act of the authority, including all things necessary to authorize and issue revenue bonds.

(h)

The members of the authority shall not be entitled to compensation for their services but shall be entitled to and shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties. The authority shall make rules and regulations for its own government and may retain, employ, and engage professional and technical supervisors, assistants, experts, other agents, and employees, temporary or permanent, as it may require. The members of the authority shall be accountable in all respects as trustees, and the authority shall keep suitable books and records of all its obligations, contracts, transactions, and undertakings, and of all income and receipts of every nature and all expenditures of every kind. The authority shall have perpetual existence.

(1999 Ga. Laws (Act No. 283, page 4815, § 3)