Sec. 37. (a) The board of directors of a public transportation corporation may appoint or employ a general manager, accountants, attorneys, traffic engineers, drivers, clerks, secretaries, guards, laborers, and other employees, and may prescribe and define their duties, regulate their compensation, discharge them, and appoint or employ their successors. Employees shall be selected without regard to race, religion, or any personal affiliation. The board shall select a person for the position of general manager on the basis of the person’s fitness for the position, taking into account the person’s executive ability and the person’s knowledge of and experience in the field of mass public transportation.

     (b) The board shall bargain collectively and enter into written contracts with authorized labor organizations representing employees other than executive, administrative, or professional personnel. These contracts may provide for the binding arbitration of disputes, wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, health and welfare, insurance, vacations, holidays, sick leave, seniority, pensions, retirement, and other benefits.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2-22 part.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.77. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.282.