Legal Documents of Sweetwater

Pursuant to the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated, § 13-4-101 there is hereby created a municipal planning commission, hereinafter referred to as the Planning Commission for the City of Sweetwater. The planning commission shall consist of nine (9) members. One member shall be the mayor of the city and one member shall be a city commissioner selected by the mayor and board of commissioners. The other seven (7) members shall be appointed by the mayor. All members of the planning commission shall serve as such without compensation. Except for the initial appointments, the terms of the seven (7) appointive members of the planning commission shall be for seven (7) years each. The seven (7) members first appointed shall be appointed for terms of one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven years respectively so that the term of one member expires each year. The term of the member selected from the mayor and board of commissioners shall run concurrently with his membership on the board. Any vacancy in an appointive membership shall be filled for the unexpired term by the mayor who shall also have authority to remove any appointive member at his pleasure. (1982 Code, § 11-101)