2023 Indiana Code › Title 8. Utilities and Transportation › Article 9.5. Transportation Agencies › Chapter 7. Automated Transit Districts › 8-9.5-7-4. Commission; Appointments; Terms; Salary; Meetings; Officers; Quorum; Record of Proceedings; Bylaws; Powers

Sec. 4. (a) The district created under this chapter shall be governed by and under control of a commission having five (5) members, two (2) of whom shall be appointed by the executive of the city, two (2) of whom shall be appointed by the city legislative body, and one (1) of whom shall be the head of the city's department of public works or department of transportation. The term of office for a commission member for a district created by the legislative body is one (1) year after the member's appointment, except that the member shall serve until a successor has qualified for the office. Thereafter, the landowners, including corporate landowners, shall elect five (5) members to succeed the original members of the commission under the bylaws of the commission for a term of one (1) year. Each member, otherwise qualified, is eligible for reappointment to successive terms.
(b) The commission members shall not receive a salary for serving but shall receive a per diem payment and expenses similar to those paid members of other special taxing district boards.
(c) The commission shall elect, at its first regular meeting and annually thereafter, one (1) of its members president, and another of its members vice president, who shall perform the duties of the president during the absence or disability of the president. Such commission shall have a suitable office where its maps, plans, documents, records and accounts shall be kept, subject to public inspection at all reasonable times.
(d) The commission shall by rule provide for regular meetings to be held not less than at semimonthly intervals throughout the year. The commission shall keep its meetings open to the public.
(e) The commission shall convene in a special meeting when such a meeting is called. The chairman or a majority of the members of the commission may call a special meeting. The commission shall establish a procedure for calling special meetings.
(f) Three (3) members of the commission constitute a quorum for a meeting. The commission may act officially by an affirmative vote of a majority of those present at the meeting at which the action is taken.
(g) The commission shall cause a written record of its proceedings to be kept which shall be available for public inspection in the office of the commission. The commission shall record in the record the aye and nay vote on the passage of each item of business.
(h) The commission shall adopt bylaws under which its meetings are to be held. The bylaws must provide that the vote of each member shall be in the same proportion that the assessed value of all of the members' land sites are to the assessed value of all the land sites within the district. The commission may suspend the bylaws by unanimous vote of the members of the commission who are present at the meeting. The commission shall not suspend the bylaws beyond the duration of the meeting at which the suspension of rules occurs.
(i) The commission may exercise the powers to supervise its internal affairs which are common to municipal legislative and administrative bodies.
As added by Acts 1982, P.L.77, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.343-1989(ss), SEC.6.