The district shall be operated and managed by a board of directors to be known as the Saluda Valley Rural Water District Board of Pickens and Anderson Counties which shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall consist of five resident electors of the area who shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of those persons attending a meeting of residents of the area held pursuant to at least one week's notice in a local newspaper giving the time and place of the meeting. The chairman and secretary of the meeting shall certify the names of those recommended to the Governor. The initial board shall be selected as follows: one member from Anderson County and one member from Pickens County shall be selected to serve for terms of two years and one member from each of the two counties shall be selected to serve for terms of four years. One member from either of the two counties shall be selected to serve for a term of six years. The persons attending the meeting shall determine which of the counties the member shall represent. A meeting shall be held each two years for the purpose of selecting persons to be recommended for appointment as successors to members of the board, except successors to the director, initially appointed for six years, shall be appointed so that the counties represented shall be alternated each six years. All terms after the initial appointments shall be for six years. All appointees shall hold office until their successors shall have been appointed and qualify. The initial terms of office shall begin as of June 14, 1968. Any vacancy shall be filled in like manner as the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. Immediately after appointment, the board shall meet and organize by the election of one of its members as chairman, one as vice chairman, one as secretary and one as treasurer. The offices of the secretary and treasurer may be combined in the discretion of the board.

HISTORY: 1968 (55) 3087.