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An Act known as the "Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965," approved March 10, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 2243), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 19, 2000 (Ga. L. 2000, p. 4492), is amended by striking the first undesignated paragraph of subsection (a) of Section 6 thereof and inserting in its place the following:
"(a) The Board of Directors of the Authority shall be composed of 18 16 members. Four members shall be residents of the City of Atlanta to be nominated by the Mayor and elected by the City Council; five members shall be residents of DeKalb County to be appointed by the local governing body thereof and at least one of such appointees shall be a resident of that portion of DeKalb County lying south of the southernmost corporate boundaries of the City of Decatur and at least one of such appointees shall be a resident of that portion of DeKalb County lying north of the southernmost corporate boundaries of the City of Decatur; and three members shall be residents of Fulton County to be appointed by the local governing body thereof, and at least one of such appointees shall be a resident of that portion of Fulton County lying south of the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta and that membership position held by a Fulton County resident, appointed by the local governing body of that county, the term of which position expires December 31, 1988, shall, beginning on and after January 1, 1989, be filled by the local governing body of Fulton County appointing a person who is a resident of that portion of Fulton County lying north of the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta; one member shall be a resident of Clayton County to be appointed by the local governing body thereof; and one member shall be a resident of Gwinnett County to be appointed by the local governing body thereof. Four members, representing the State, shall be as follows: the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation who shall be an ex officio member; the State Revenue Commissioner who shall be an ex officio member; the Executive Director of the State Properties Commission who shall be an ex officio member; and the Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority who shall be an ex officio member. The first member who must be a resident of that portion of Fulton County lying south of the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta shall be appointed by the governing body of Fulton County to take office on July 1, 1985, for an initial term ending December 31, 1986. The two members who are DeKalb County residents and appointed by the governing authority thereof and who are added by this paragraph shall each be appointed by the governing body of DeKalb County to take office on July 1, 1985, for an initial term ending December 31, 1986. After the initial terms of those three members added to the Board in 1985, that governing body which appointed the member for that initial term to that office shall appoint successors thereto for terms of office of four years in the same manner that such governing body makes its other appointments to the Board."

Said Act is further amended by adding immediately preceding the last undesignated paragraph of subsection (a) of Section 6 the following:
"The term of office of the member of the Board appointed by the local governing body of Gwinnett County and of the member of the Board appointed by the local governing body of Clayton County shall expire on the date this paragraph becomes effective in 2001. No person shall thereafter be appointed as a member of the Board by either of such local governing bodies unless that local governing body obtains referendum approval of a rapid transit contract obligating the local government served by that local governing body to levy the tax authorized in Section 25 of this Act, in which event one member shall be appointed by that local governing body for an initial term of office beginning upon the date that said contract becomes valid and binding upon that local governing body and ending upon December 31 of the fourth full year after the year in which the referendum approving said contract was held."