RS 951.11 - Board of trustees; membership; vacancies
The general administration, management, and responsibility for the proper operation of this retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this Part, as well as the exercise of all its corporate rights, powers, and privileges are vested in a board of trustees which shall be composed of nine members, as follows:
(1) The superintendent of the Orleans Parish School Board shall be a member;
(2) Three members of the Orleans Parish School Board to be elected by the said Orleans Parish School Board for a term of four years; elections to fill the places of these three members whose terms have expired shall be held in the month of January every four years. The members so elected shall become members of the board of trustees at the first regular meeting in the month of February following their election. Vacancies occurring in the offices of the three trustees from the Orleans Parish School Board shall be filled for the unexpired terms by the said Orleans Parish School Board; and
(3) Five members from among the participants who shall serve for terms of six years each, except members of the first board of trustees whose terms shall be for six, four and two years respectively as provided for under the first board of trustees. Regular elections to fill the places of members whose terms have expired shall be held every two years in the month of January. The participants so elected shall become members of the board of trustees at the first regular meeting in the month of February following their election. Vacancies occurring in the office of one or more of the five trustees from among the participants shall be filled by the board of trustees if the unexpired term is for less than one year, and in cases where the unexpired term is for one year or more, the vacancy shall be filled at a special election to be held within sixty days.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1031 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.