Section 16-55-2 Board of trustees - Appointment; terms; vacancies; compensation and expenses.
Section 16-55-2
Board of trustees - Appointment; terms; vacancies; compensation and expenses.
The board of trustees shall consist of three members from Mobile County, three members from the state at large, the State Superintendent of Education, the Governor, who shall be ex officio president of the board and one each from each of the following state senatorial districts: Twenty-first District comprising Baldwin and Escambia Counties, Nineteenth District comprising Choctaw, Clarke and Washington Counties, Twentieth District comprising Marengo and Sumter Counties, Sixteenth District comprising Monroe and Wilcox Counties, Thirtieth District comprising Dallas and Lowndes Counties, Seventeenth District comprising Butler, Conecuh and Covington Counties, Twenty-fifth District comprising Coffee and Crenshaw Counties, Twenty-third District comprising Dale and Geneva Counties and the Thirty-fifth District comprising Henry and Houston Counties. The trustees shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the State Senate, and shall hold office for a term of 12 years, and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. The board shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal as may be, so that one third may be chosen quadrennially, as provided in Section 16-55-5. Vacancies occurring in the office of trustee from death or resignation, and the vacancies regularly occurring by expiration of the term shall be filled by the Governor, and the appointee shall hold office until the next meeting of the Legislature. Successors to those trustees whose terms expire during an interim shall hold office for the full term unless they are rejected by the Senate. No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other than his actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as a trustee.
(Acts 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 157, p. 350, §2; Acts 1965, No. 557, p. 1041, §1.)