§ 1.2-203. Election of Officers.
(a) All elected officers of the County shall be elected for four year terms of office, except as otherwise specified hereinafter for the first terms of certain elected offices. All terms of office for elected officers shall commence on the first Monday of January of the year following their election. Any limit on the number of terms which a person may serve in an elected office may only be established by amendment of this Charter, approved by the qualified electors of the County in a referendum pursuant to § 1.10-1008.
(b) (1) The Board of Commissioners shall consist of nine (9) members, five (5) of whom shall be elected from districts and four (4) from the County at large. The County shall be divided into five (5) districts and the qualified electors of each district shall have the right to vote for one (1) district commissioner and for as many commissioners-at-large as are to be elected at the election.
The initial boundaries of the five districts created by this Charter are as contained in Appendix A attached hereto. If a court of competent jurisdiction shall find the initial boundaries of the districts to be invalid for any reason, the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County shall designate the initial boundaries of the five (5) districts within ninety (90) days after the entrance of the final order declaring the initial boundaries to be invalid. The population of each district shall be nearly as equal as practicable.
The three (3) commissioners elected for four (4) year terms in 1975 shall serve as commissioners-at-large for the remainder of their terms with no change in compensation. In the year 1979 and at four (4) year intervals, four (4) commissioners-at-large shall be elected.
The five (5) district commissioners shall be elected by the qualified electors of the County in the year 1977 for four (4) year terms and at four (4) year intervals thereafter. One (1) commissioner-at-large shall be elected in the year 1977 to serve for an initial term of two (2) years.
(2) It shall be the mandatory duty of the Board to redistrict the County as required by state law. The population of each district shall be nearly as equal as practicable.
(c) The County Executive shall be nominated and elected by the qualified electors of the County in the year 1977 and at four year intervals thereafter. No person so elected to the office of County Executive for a four (4) year term shall serve more than two (2) consecutive four (4) year terms of office. The limitation shall apply to persons elected to the office of County Executive at the elections to be held November 7, 1989, and every four (4) years thereafter. No four (4) year term served prior to that commencing on the first Monday of January, 1990 shall be included in calculating this limitation. Any terms served by a person reported to fill a vacancy or elected to complete an incompleted term in the office of County Executive pursuant to § 1.2-208 or other applicable law shall not be included in calculating this limitation.
(d) The District Attorney, Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner, Prothonotary, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Clerk of Courts elected for four year terms in 1975 shall serve in the office for which they were elected for the remainder of their terms with no change in their compensation. In the year 1979 and at four year intervals thereafter, the District Attorney, Sheriff, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Coroner, and Clerk of Courts shall be elected for four (4) year terms.
(e) The Controller elected in 1977 shall serve for a term of two (2) years. Thereafter the Controller shall be elected for four year terms.
(f) No person may seek election to more than one (1) of the offices set forth in this Article at the same election.
The provisions of this § 1.2-203 amended November 5, 1985, effective November 20, 1985; amended November 7, 1989, effective November 14, 1989. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (114994) to (114995).
This section cited in 339 Pa. Code § 1.10-1009 (relating to definitions and rules of construction).
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