23-117 - Eligibility to serve for more than two successive terms.
§ 23-117. Eligibility to serve for more than two successive terms.
No person, except the ex officio member, shall be eligible to serve for orduring more than two successive four-year terms; but after the expiration ofa term of two years or less, or after the expiration of the remainder of aterm to which appointed to fill a vacancy, two additional four-year terms maybe served by such a member if appointed thereto. Incumbents on April 5, 1945,appointed for full terms prior to June 1, 1944, shall be deemed to be servingtheir first terms.
(Code 1919, § 859; 1944, p. 345; 1945, p. 55; 1980, c. 559.)