230A.4 - TRUSTEES -- QUALIFICATIONS -- MANNER OF SELECTION. - Iowa Statutes

230A.4 TRUSTEES -- QUALIFICATIONS -- MANNER OF SELECTION. When the board or boards of supervisors of a county or affiliated counties decides to directly establish a community mental health center under this chapter, the supervisors, acting jointly in the case of affiliated counties, shall appoint a board of community mental health center trustees to serve until the next succeeding general election. The board of trustees shall consist of at least seven members each of whom shall be a resident of the county or one of the counties served by the center. An employee of the center is not eligible for the office of community mental health center trustee. At the first general election following establishment of the center, all members of the board of trustees shall be elected. They shall assume office on the second day of the following January which is not a Sunday or legal holiday, and shall at once divide themselves by lot into three classes of as nearly equal size as possible. The first class shall serve for terms of two years, the second class for terms of four years, and the third class for terms of six years. Thereafter, a member shall be elected to the board of trustees for a term of six years at each general election to succeed each member whose term will expire in the following year.          Section History: Early Form [C75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 230A.4; 81 Acts, ch 117, § 1030] Referred to in § 230A.3, 331.321