Sec. 7. (a) Each redevelopment commissioner shall serve for one (1) year from the first day of January after the commissioner’s appointment and until the commissioner’s successor is appointed and has qualified, except that the original commissioners shall serve from the date of their appointment until the first day of January in the second year after their appointment. If a vacancy occurs, a successor shall be appointed in the same manner as the original commissioner, and the successor shall serve for the remainder of the vacated term.

     (b) Each redevelopment commissioner, before beginning the commissioner’s duties, shall take and subscribe an oath of office in the usual form, to be endorsed on the certificate of the commissioner’s appointment, which shall be promptly filed with the clerk for the unit that the commissioner serves.

     (c) Each redevelopment commissioner, before beginning the commissioner’s duties, shall execute a bond payable to the state, with surety to be approved by the executive of the unit. The bond must be in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) and must be conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of the commissioner’s office and the accounting for all monies and property that may come into the commissioner’s hands or under the commissioner’s control. The cost of the bond shall be paid by the special taxing district.

     (d) A redevelopment commissioner must be at least eighteen (18) years of age, and must be a resident of the unit that the commissioner serves.

     (e) If a commissioner ceases to be qualified under this section, the commissioner forfeits the commissioner’s office.

     (f) Except as provided in subsection (g), redevelopment commissioners are not entitled to salaries but are entitled to reimbursement for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties.

     (g) A redevelopment commissioner who does not otherwise hold a lucrative office for the purpose of Article 2, Section 9 of the Indiana Constitution may receive:

(1) a salary; or

(2) a per diem;

and is entitled to reimbursement for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the redevelopment commissioner’s duties.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-7-7-7 part; 18-7-7.1-4; 18-7-7.1-7.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.33. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.310, SEC.84; P.L.10-1997, SEC.35; P.L.2-1998, SEC.84; P.L.127-2017, SEC.203.