7-82-607 - Vacancies in board. - Tennessee Statutes

7-82-607. Vacancies in board.

(a)  (1)  Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2), the office of any commissioner, other than a commissioner at large, shall become vacant if the incumbent ceases to reside in or own property in the county from which the commissioner was elected.

     (2)  In any county having a population of not less than twenty-seven thousand nine hundred (27,900) nor more than twenty-seven thousand nine hundred twenty (27,920), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the office of any commissioner, other than a commissioner at large, shall become vacant if the incumbent ceases to reside in the county from which the incumbent was elected.

(b)  In those districts coming within the provisions of § 7-82-103(b)(1) and (2), any vacancy in the board of commissioners shall be filled by the remaining commissioners, as provided in this chapter, by electing a resident of, or owner of real property in, the county from which such person's predecessor was appointed or elected; provided, that a commissioner at large may be elected from any county in the district.

[Acts 1955, ch. 275, § 1; 1973, ch. 249, § 8; T.C.A., § 6-2634; Acts 1987, ch. 162, §§ 2, 3; 2006, ch. 512, § 1.]