2009 Alabama Code
Title 45 — LOCAL LAWS.
Chapter 2 — BALDWIN COUNTY.
Section 45-2-72.01 Membership; terms of office.

Membership; terms of office.

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office, the position of Chair of Baldwin County Commission shall rotate from among the members of the commission on an annual basis. At its organizational meeting required in Section 11-3-1, the commission, by majority vote of its members, shall elect a chair who shall serve in that capacity for 12 months. Also during the meeting, the commission shall establish a rotation of the position of chair to enable a commissioner from each of the other three districts to serve as chair for 12 months beginning with the first meeting in November of the year following the organizational meeting required in Section 11-3-1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a member may decline to serve as chair during all or part of the period of his or her rotation by the submission of a written statement to the commission, and the commission shall select a member to serve as chair during the rotation period of the member.

(b) During the current term of the county commission, the chair of the commission serving on May 12, 2005, shall serve as chair until the first meeting in November 2005, and the commission shall elect another member of the commission to serve as chair to serve until the organizational meeting of the commission after the next election of the commission.