§ 2.40.020. Commission—Creation—Membership.  


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  • There is created a civil service commission of five members which shall be appointed by the county board of supervisors. The members of this commission shall be selected from among the qualified electors of the county and each of them shall hold office for a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Vacancies occurring in the commission shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors for the remainder of the unexpired term only. The terms of office of two members of the first civil service commission shall be one year. The terms of office of the other members of the commission shall be two, three and four years, respectively. The members thereof shall determine by lot the relative order of the expiration of their terms. No member of the commission shall hold any other salaried county office, nor shall he have been, within the year next preceding his appointment, an active executive officer in any political organization. Each member shall have been a resident of the county for one year next preceding his appointment. The board of supervisors, by a four-fifths vote of all the members, may remove a member of the commission during his term of office, but only upon stating in writing the reasons for such removal and allowing him an opportunity to be publicly heard in his own defense. The commission shall elect one of its members president.

(Ord. 755 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 2-002)