23-72 - Eligibility to serve more than two successive terms.

§ 23-72. Eligibility to serve more than two successive terms.

No person shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two successivefour-year terms; but after the expiration of a term of two years or less, orafter the expiration of the remainder of a term to which appointed to fill avacancy, two additional four-year terms may be served by such a member ifappointed thereto.

(Code 1919, § 807; 1944, p. 400; 1945, p. 53; 1980, c. 559; 1989, Sp. Sess.,c. 5.)