Sec. 4.1. (a) This section applies only to the board of an airport authority established for a county having a consolidated city.

(b) The board consists of members appointed as follows:

(1) The mayor of the consolidated city shall appoint six (6) members. Each member appointed under this subdivision must be a resident of the county having the consolidated city.

(2) The majority leader of the legislative body of the county having the consolidated city shall appoint one (1) member. The member appointed under this subdivision must be a resident of the county having the consolidated city.

(3) The county executive of each of the following Indiana counties shall each appoint one (1) member:

(A) Hendricks County.

(B) Hancock County.

(C) Hamilton County.

(D) Morgan County.

The county executive of a county represented on the board under this subdivision may not appoint an advisory member under section 4(e) of this chapter.

Not more than three (3) members appointed under subdivision (1) may be members of the same political party.

(c) The member of the board appointed under subsection (b)(2) must also be a resident of a township that:

(1) is located in the county having the consolidated city; and

(2) has a population of:

(A) less than fifty thousand (50,000); or

(B) more than one hundred thirty-three thousand (133,000) but less than one hundred forty thousand (140,000).

(d) A member of the board appointed under subsection (b)(3)(A) must be a resident of a township:

(1) located in the county making the appointment; and

(2) having a population of more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) but less than twenty-eight thousand (28,000).

(e) The member of the board appointed under subsection (b)(3)(D) must be a resident of:

(1) Morgan County; and

(2) one (1) of the following two (2) townships in Morgan County:

(A) Brown Township.

(B) Madison Township.

(f) A member of the board holds office for four (4) years and until the member's successor is appointed and qualified.

(g) If a vacancy occurs in the board, the authority that appointed the member that vacated the board shall appoint an individual to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.

(h) A board member may be reappointed to successive terms.

(i) A board member may be impeached under the procedure provided for the impeachment of county officers.

(j) A board member appointed under subsection (b)(3) may not vote on a matter before the board relating to imposing, increasing, or decreasing property taxes in the county having the consolidated city.

As added by P.L.116-1995, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.170-2002, SEC.70; P.L.83-2004, SEC.1; P.L.139-2011, SEC.3; P.L.119-2012, SEC.100; P.L.74-2018, SEC.2.