§11-44-13. Commissioners — Filling of two simultaneous vacancies.  


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  • Should a vacancy exist simultaneously from any cause provided for in this article in two commissionerships, so as to leave no quorum of said board of commissioners to fill the same, an election to fill said vacancies shall be called by the remaining commissioner to be held not less than 20 nor more than 30 days from the occurrence of the second vacancy. Notice of said election and of the time of holding same shall be given by one publication at least 15 days in advance of the same in one or more newspapers in said city or town at the expense of said city or town. The commissioners chosen at said election shall qualify as speedily as possible thereafter.

(Acts 1911, No. 504, p. 591; Code 1923, §2393; Code 1940, T. 37, §87.)