§ 4. [Elections.]

(a)

At the general election held in November of 2000, the chairperson and commissioners from all commissioner districts shall be elected. The chairperson and commissioners from commissioner districts one and two elected in 2000 shall take office on the first day of January in the year following their election and shall serve terms of four years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The commissioners from commissioner districts three and four elected in 2000 shall take office on the first day of January in the year following their election and shall serve initial terms of two years until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Those and all future successors to the chairperson and commissioners from commissioner districts whose terms of office are to expire shall be elected at the general statewide election immediately preceding the expiration of such terms, shall take office on the first day of January in the year following that election, and shall serve for terms of office of four years until their successors are duty elected and qualified.

(b)

The chairperson and all members of the board who are elected thereto shall be nominated and elected in accordance with O.C.G.A. tit. 21, ch. 2 [O.C.G.A. § 21-2-1 et seq.], the Georgia Election Code.