§ 84. COMMISSIONER DISTRICTS.

(a)

The County shall be divided into four numbered commissioner districts.

(b)

Commissioner districts shall be reapportioned, after the decennial reapportionment of State representative and senate district boundaries. The Board shall direct the appropriate County official to determine the population distribution among the commissioner districts. Within 60 days from the date of direction by the Board, the official shall report the findings to the Board and publish a legal notice of the district population in a newspaper of general circulation in the County. If the population of any commissioner district is more than 105 percent of the population of any other commissioner district, the department shall prepare and present to the Board a plan for modifying the boundaries of the districts so that the population of no commissioner district will be more than 103 percent of the population of any other commissioner district. The Board shall, within 90 days of the submission of the plan, alter the boundaries of the commissioner districts as necessary by ordinance to provide for an approximately equal population distribution. Notwithstanding any other provisions found in this Charter, no change in boundaries of the districts shall affect the continuance in office of a commissioner or taking office of a commissioner-elect with respect to the term of office for which elected prior to the adoption of the reapportionment.

( Res. No. 14-82, 7-22-2014, eff. 1-1-2015 )