Section 217.903

Title XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 217

Effective - 28 Aug 2001, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  217.903.  Terms of commission — vacancies, how filled — members to serve without compensation, expenses to be paid. — The commissioners shall serve for terms of three years, except that the first person appointed by each the mayor, the county commission and the governor shall serve for two years and the second person appointed by the governor shall serve for four years.  Each commissioner shall hold office until a successor has been appointed and qualified.  In the event a vacancy exists or in the event a commissioner's term expires, a successor commissioner shall be appointed by whomever appointed the commissioner who initially held the vacant positions and if no person is so selected within sixty days of the creation of the vacancy, the unexpired term of such commissioner may be filled by a majority vote of the remainder of the commissioners, provided such successor commissioner shall meet the requirements set forth by sections 217.900 to 217.910.  Pending any such appointment to fill any vacancy, the remaining commissioners may conduct commission business.  Commissioners shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Missouri state penitentiary redevelopment commission fund established in subsection 1 of section 217.910 for expenses incurred in conducting the commission's business.

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(L. 2001 H.B. 621 subsec. 3)