§ 6245 Commissioner Term Lengths

• •A commissioner’s normal term is four years.
• •The first chairman only gets a two‑year term.
• •The other first‑appointed commissioners draw lots for 1‑, 2‑, 3‑, and 4‑year terms.

A city council appoints five new commissioners today. The first person named chairman will work for two years. The other four commissioners pull numbers out of a hat and end up with terms of one, two, three, and four years.

Because of the law, the chairman’s job ends after two years, and the other four commissioners’ jobs end at different times (one, two, three, or four years) so the board doesn’t all change at once.