SEC. 2.101. TERM OF OFFICE.
§ 2.101
Board of Supervisors members are elected to four-year terms starting January 8th following their election. A person may not serve more than two consecutive four-year terms, and must wait at least four years after finishing two consecutive terms before serving again; certain partial terms and resignations count as full terms for this limit.
Supervisors are elected every four years and start their job on January 8th after the election. No one can serve more than two terms in a row (eight years). If you've served two terms back-to-back, you have to wait at least four years before you can be a Supervisor again. If you're appointed or elected to finish more than two years of someone else's term, that counts as a full term for the limit. If you quit when there's less than two years left in your term, that also counts as a full term.
- Could be simpler:The rule about what counts as a 'full term' for term-limit purposes is scattered across three separate conditions (mid-term appointment, over-two-years rule, and resignation rule) and could be consolidated for clarity.
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Official text
Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be elected at a general election and shall serve a four-year term commencing on the eighth day in January following election and until a successor qualifies. The respective terms of office of the members of the Board of Supervisors in effect on the date this Charter is adopted shall continue.
No person elected or appointed as a Supervisor may serve as such for more than two successive four-year terms. Any person appointed, elected, or any combination thereof to the office of Supervisor to complete in excess of two years of a four-year term shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to have served one full term. No person having served two successive four-year terms may serve as a Supervisor, either by election or appointment, until at least four years after the expiration of the second successive term in office. Any Supervisor who resigns with less than two full years remaining until the expiration of the term shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have served a full four-year term.
(Amended by Proposition D, Approved 11/6/2012)