Att'y Gen. Op. Your predecessor as chair of the Committee on Redistricting, Senator Gallegos, asked this office a series of questions concerning section 143.006 of the Local Government Code, especially with respect to the issue of appointments to the Fire Fighters' and Police Officers' Civil Service Commission. Questions concerning the criminal provisions of the statute would require considerations of facts and circumstances of a sort in which this office does not engage in the opinion process, and accordingly we cannot answer them. The commission consists of three members appointed by the municipality's chief executive and confirmed by the governing body of the municipality.
Members serve staggered three-year terms with the term of one member expiring each year.
If a vacancy occurs or if an appointee fails to qualify within ten days after the date of appointment, the chief executive shall appoint a person to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. Section 3 of article 1269m, Revised Civil Statutes, the pre-codification source law, is to the same effect. Gen. Laws 550, 551. Request Letter, supra note 1, at 1. Accordingly, we do not answer this question.