Section 130052 Of Chapter 2. Creation Of Commissions From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 12. >> Chapter 2.
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. The Orange County Transportation Commission shall be known
as the Orange County Transportation Authority and shall be governed
by a board of directors consisting of 18 members appointed as
follows:
(a) Five members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors
appointed by that board. Terms of office of the five members of the
board of supervisors shall be determined by the board of supervisors.
A board of supervisors member's term shall cease if he or she no
longer serves as a member of the board of supervisors.
(b) (1) (A) Five city members, with one from each of the five
supervisorial districts, elected by the Orange County City Selection
Committee members within each supervisorial district on a
population-weighted voting basis.
(B) Five city members, with one from each of the five
supervisorial districts, elected on a "one city, one vote" basis by
the Orange County City Selection Committee members within each
supervisorial district.
(2) A city that is within more than one supervisorial district
shall be considered part of the district where the highest percentage
of the city's population resides. Under this circumstance, the
entire city's population shall be used for population-weighted voting
purposes. Each city member shall be a mayor or a city council member
serving within the county. Terms of office of each city member shall
be determined by the Orange County City Selection Committee. A city
member's term shall cease if he or she no longer serves as a member
of a city council or as the mayor of a city.
(3) A city member serving on the authority on the effective date
of the act amending this section in the 2003-04 Regular Session shall
continue to serve until the earliest of either the expiration of his
or her term or until he or she no longer serves as a mayor or member
of a city council.
(c) Two public members appointed by a majority vote of the other
15 voting members of the authority. Each public member shall be a
resident of Orange County who is not then serving, and has not within
the last four years served, as an elected official of a city within
the county, as an elected official of any agency or special district
within Orange County, or as an elected official of the county. Each
public member shall serve for a term of four years.
(d) The Director of Transportation, District 12, who shall be
appointed by the Governor as a nonvoting member. The member shall
serve for a term of four years.