§ 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light, sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having the powers, duties and responsibilities of two or more such separate boards.
2. The board of trustees may also establish or abolish a separate board of police commissioners.
3. The board of trustees shall establish the composition, powers, duties and responsibilities of each board of commissioners and may, from time to time, amend same.
4. Any board established hereunder shall be composed of not less than three members, who shall perform their duties subject to the approval of the board of trustees.
5. The mayor, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, shall appoint the members of any board of commissioners and the first appointments of members thereto shall be for terms so fixed that at least one will expire at the end of each official year commencing at the end of the current such year and continuing in succeeding year until the entire original appointments run out. No such term shall exceed five years.
6. Commencing with the first annual meeting following the establishment of any such board, and continuing annually thereafter, successors to former appointees, the term of whose offices have then expired, shall be appointed for a full term. The length of such term shall be determined by the board of trustees but in no event shall exceed five years.
7. A person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be eligible for appointment to any board of fire commissioners. Any fire commissioner who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term of office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.
8. The board of trustees may also abolish any such board or boards established under any prior provision of law. If not so abolished such board or boards shall continue and the commissioners thereof shall continue in office during their respective terms.
9. Any action of the board of trustees hereunder establishing, relating to or abolishing any such board or fixing the terms of office of the members thereof shall be by resolution or local law adopted at a regular meeting by a majority vote of the entire board. No such action shall be taken unless a public hearing has first been held of which at least ten days public notice shall have been given by publication in the official village newspaper, or, if there be none, in a newspaper of general circulation in the village.
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