(A) After the adoption of this subchapter establishing a Department of Economic Development, the County Auditor shall promptly notify the County Board of Commissioners, the County Council and the Common Council of Gary, Indiana, that they are required to make the selections and nominations required by this chapter.
(B) The County Executive, the County Board of Commissioners, shall make the selections of the one member of the Commission that he or she is required to select within 15 days after receiving the notice.
(C) The County Council and the Common Council shall make their nomination of the members of the Commission that the County Executive is required to select within 15 days after receiving the notice.
(D) Each selectee and nominee shall be appointed by the County Executive, the County Board of Commissioners within ten days after the County Executive receives the nominations required to be made by the county and Council and the Common Council of Gary, Indiana.
(E) At the expiration of the respective terms of each of the original Economic Development Commissioners, their respective successors shall be selected and nominated, before the expiration of the term, in the same manner as the original Commissioner, and each succeeding Commissioner shall serve for a term of four years. A Commissioner shall hold over after the expiration of his or her term until his or her successor is appointed and has qualified.
(F) If either the County Council or the Common Council of Gary, Indiana, fails to make a nomination within the time specified by divisions (A) through (E) of this section, the County Executive, the County Board of Commissioners, may select and appoint a person without a nomination.
(G) If a person appointed as an Economic Development Commissioner fails to take the oath of office required by § 31.074 within ten days after notice of his or her appointment is mailed to him or her, or if any Commissioner, after qualifying, dies, resigns, vacates his or her office, or is removed from office, a new Commissioner shall be appointed to fill the vacancy in the same manner as the Commissioner in respect to whom the vacancy occurs was appointed. A Commissioner appointed under this section shall serve for the remainder of the vacated term.
