Tennessee § 7-82-607 - Vacancies in board.
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§ 7-82-607. Vacancies in board.
Except as provided in subsection (b), the office of any commissioner, other than a commissioner at large, shall become vacant if the incumbent ceases to reside in or be a district customer in the county from which the commissioner was elected. 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. Acts 1955, ch. 275, § 1; 1973, ch. 249, § 8; T.C.A., § 6-2634; Acts 1987, ch. 162, §§ 2, 3; 2006, ch. 512, § 1; 2010, ch. 1146, §§ 11, 12; 2012, ch. 538, § 4. Compiler's Notes. For table of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement. Acts 2010, ch. 1146, § 13 provided that, notwithstanding § 8-48-101 , the office of a district commissioner will not be vacated on June 30, 2010, solely because the district commissioner is not a district resident or customer and the district commissioner may continue in office until the expiration of such commissioner's term of office in effect on June 30, 2010. Cross-References. Waiver of provisions, § 7-82-202 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 13 Tenn. Juris., Gas Companies, § 7.
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