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To amend an Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Bulloch County, approved August 11, 1924 (Ga. L. 1924, p. 290), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 19, 2000 (Ga. L. 2000, p. 4002), so as to revise the districts for the election of members of the board of commissioners; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for manner of election; to provide for a vice chairperson; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance pursuant to Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

(a) The county government of Bulloch County shall consist of a chairperson and six district commissioners who are hereby constituted under the name and style of the 'Board of Commissioners of Bulloch County, Georgia', and by such name they shall have such authority and power as provided by law.
(b) The board of commissioners shall consist of a part-time chairperson and six part-time district commissioners. The part-time chairperson shall be elected from the county at large. The six district commissioners shall be elected from two districts, District 1 and District 2. Two commissioners shall be elected at large from District 1 and the seats shall be designated as 1-A and 1-B. Four commissioners shall be elected at large from District 2 and the seats shall be designated as 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, and 2-D.
(c) The vice chairperson position shall be filled by each of the six district commissioners who shall serve a one-year term, beginning in 1993, on a rotating basis in the following order: 1-A, 2-A, 2-B, 1-B, 2-C, 2-D and repeating accordingly.

(a) For the purpose of electing members of the board of commissioners, Bulloch County is divided into two commissioner districts which shall be and correspond to those two numbered districts described in and attached to and made a part of this Act and further identified as Plan Name: bullccp2 Plan Type: Local User: Gina Administrator: Bulloch Co.
(b) When used in such attachment, the terms 'Tract' and 'BG' (Block Group) shall mean and describe the same geographical boundaries as provided in the report of the Bureau of the Census for the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. The separate numeric designations in a Tract description which are underneath a 'BG' heading shall mean and describe individual Blocks within a Block Group as provided in the report of the Bureau of the Census for the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. Any part of Bulloch County which is not included in any such district described in that attachment shall be included within that district contiguous to such part which contains the least population according to the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. Any part of Bulloch County which is described in that attachment as being in a particular district shall nevertheless not be included within such district if such part is not contiguous to such district. Such noncontiguous part shall instead be included within that district contiguous to such part which contains the least population according to the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. Except as otherwise provided in the description of any district, whenever the description of such district refers to a named city, it shall mean the geographical boundaries of that city as shown on the census map for the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia.

(a) The members of the board of commissioners who were elected at the general election in November, 2000, shall continue in office for the terms to which they were elected and until successors are elected and qualified as provided in this Act.
(b) The first members of the reconstituted Board of Commissioners of Bulloch County from seats 1-B, 2-B, and 2-D shall be elected at the state-wide general election in 2002. Such members shall take office on January 1 following their election for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
(c) The first members of the reconstituted Board of Commissioners of Bulloch County from seats 1-A, 2-A, and 2-C shall be elected at the state-wide general election in 2004. Such members shall take office on January 1 following their election for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
(d) The chairperson of the reconstituted Board of Commissioners of Bulloch County shall be elected at the state-wide general election in 2004. Such member shall take office on January 1 following his or her election for a term of four years and until his or her successor is elected and qualified.
(e) Successors to members elected under subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section shall be elected at the state-wide general election next preceding the expiration of such terms of office and shall take office on January 1 following their election for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
(f) Commissioner Districts 1 and 2 as they existed on January 1, 2002, shall continue to be designated as Commissioner Districts 1 and 2, respectively, but as newly described under this Act, and, on and after the effective date of this Act, such members of the board serving from those former commissioner districts shall be deemed to be serving from and representing their respective districts as newly described under this Act."