§1156.  Board of directors

A.(1)  The corporation shall have a board of directors in which all powers of the corporation shall be vested and which shall consist of any number of directors, not less than three, all of whom shall be duly qualified electors of the municipality or parish with respect to which the corporation was formed.  The directors shall serve as such without compensation, except that they shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties hereunder.  No director shall be an officer or employee of the municipality or parish.

(2)  The directors shall be elected by the governing body of the municipality or parish, and they shall be so elected that they shall hold office for overlapping terms.  At the time of the election of the first board of directors the governing body of the municipality or the parish shall divide the directors into three groups containing as near equal whole numbers as possible.  The first term of the directors included in the first group shall be two years, the first term of the directors included in the second group shall be four years, the first term of the directors included in the third group shall be six years, and thereafter the terms of all directors shall be six years; provided that if at the expiration of any term of office of any director a successor thereto has not been elected, then the director whose term of office has expired shall continue to hold office until his successor shall be so elected.

B.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the governing authority of the parish of St. Charles may appoint officers or employees of the parish as directors of the industrial development board of the parish of St. Charles.

C.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the audit of the industrial development board of the parish of St. Charles may be included in the audit of the parish of St. Charles, and additional costs of the parish audit occasioned by the audit of the industrial development board may be charged to the industrial development board.

D.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section, the board of directors of the Industrial Development Board of the Town of Vinton, Inc. may consist of members who are qualified electors of Ward Seven of the parish of Calcasieu.

Acts 1962, No. 436, §6.  Amended by Acts 1964, No. 433, §1; Acts 1972, No. 103, §5, emerg. eff. June 25, 1972, at 6:15 P.M.; Acts 1992, No. 117, §1, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 2006, No. 155, §1, eff. June 2, 2006.