13-23-107 - Appointed members Qualifications. - Tennessee Statutes

13-23-107. Appointed members Qualifications.

(a)  (1)  The governor shall appoint the following members of the agency, who shall be citizens of the state and shall not hold public office: one (1) licensed real estate broker; one (1) person engaged in the savings and loan association profession; one (1) person engaged in the mortgage banking profession; one (1) person engaged in the retail building material supply profession; one (1) person engaged in the manufactured housing profession; one (1) person engaged in the homebuilding profession; one (1) executive director of a local public housing authority; one (1) person representing local governments; one (1) person from a qualifying not-for-profit corporation; and three (3) persons from the public at large who are knowledgeable about the problems of inadequate housing conditions in the state. When making appointments, the governor shall give due consideration to geographic distribution of the members of the agency to ensure that all parts of the state are adequately represented. With respect to the three (3) persons appointed from the public at large, one (1) person shall be from the first, second or third congressional district, one (1) person shall be from the fourth, fifth or sixth congressional district and one (1) person shall be from the seventh, eighth or ninth congressional district. In making appointments to the agency board of directors, the governor shall strive to ensure that at least one (1) person appointed to serve on the board is sixty (60) years of age or older and that at least one (1) person appointed to serve on the board is a member of a racial minority.

     (2)  The speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each appoint one (1) member from the public at large who shall be citizens of the state, shall not hold public office and shall be knowledgeable about the problems of inadequate housing conditions in the state. Any change in the status or profession of an appointed member shall not affect such member's position or term as a member of the agency.

(b)  Each member of the agency duly appointed by the governor pursuant to the former provisions of this section shall continue to serve and fill such member's respective membership position until the expiration of the term of office to which such member was appointed and until such member's successor is duly appointed and qualified. At the expiration of the term of office to which a member was appointed pursuant to the former provisions of this section, such member may be reappointed subject to the limitations imposed by this section and § 13-23-108.

[Acts 1973, ch. 241, § 4; 1979, ch. 442, § 2; T.C.A., § 13-2307; Acts 1982, ch. 641, § 1; 1988, ch. 900, § 2; 1988, ch. 1013, § 11; 1993, ch. 21, § 1.]