7-15-4431. Appointment of commissioners. (1) An authority consists of seven commissioners appointed by the mayor. The mayor shall designate the first presiding officer. A commissioner may not be a city official.
     (2) Two of the commissioners must be tenants of the housing authority. One tenant commissioner shall represent family tenants, and one tenant commissioner shall represent elderly tenants and tenants with disabilities. Nominees for tenant commissioner shall submit to the city clerk a petition signed by not less than 25 adult tenants of the authority or 25% of the adult tenants of the authority, whichever is greater. The city clerk shall submit a list of the tenant nominees to the mayor for appointment to the housing authority. The staff of the housing authority may not involve itself in the nomination or appointment of tenant commissioners.
     (3) The mayor shall file with the city clerk a certificate of the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner, and the certificate is conclusive evidence of the proper appointment of the commissioner.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 140, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 5309.5, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 35-105(part); amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 514, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 472, L. 1997.