(45 ILCS 60/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 119)
Sec. 3.
In pursuance of Article IV of said Compact, there shall be three
members (hereinafter called commissioners) of the Ohio River Valley Water
Sanitation Commission (hereinafter called Commission) from the State of
Illinois. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall appoint two persons as two of such commissioners, each of which shall
be a resident and citizen of the State of Illinois. The terms of one of the
said two commissioners first appointed shall be three years and of the
other shall be six years; and their successors shall be appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of
six years each. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor
shall be appointed and qualified. Vacancies occurring in the office of any
such commissioner from any reason or cause shall be filled by appointment
by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the
unexpired term. The third commissioner from the State of Illinois shall be
the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, ex-officio, and the term of any
such ex-officio commissioner shall terminate at the time he ceases to hold
said office of Director of the Environmental Protection Agency,
and his successor as a
commissioner shall be his successor as said Director of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
With the exception of the issuance of any order under the
provisions of Article IX of the Compact, said ex-officio commissioner may
delegate, from time to time, to any deputy or other subordinate in his
department or office the power to be present and participate, including
voting, as his representative or substitute at any meeting of or hearing by
or other proceeding of the Commission. The terms of each of the initial
three members shall begin at the date of the appointment of the two
appointive commissioners, provided the said Compact shall then have gone
into effect in accordance with Article XI of the Compact; otherwise shall
begin upon the date upon which said Compact shall become effective in
accordance with said Article XI.
Any Commissioner may be removed from office by the Governor upon charges
and after a hearing, but opportunity to be heard shall be given.
(Source: P.A. 79-392.)
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