(a) The Court of County Commission of Chambers County is hereby abolished, and there is created in lieu thereof the Chambers County Commission, to be composed of five commissioners as hereinafter provided. Each commissioner shall be a resident and qualified elector of a commissioner’s district as provided herein, and shall be elected by the electors of the county at large at the general elections held in November of 1974 and November of 1976. Each commissioner shall serve four years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next following his or her election, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. In the event of a vacancy, the same shall be filled by appointment by the Governor for the unexpired term. Commissioners for Districts 2 and 4 shall be elected in 1974. Commissioners for Districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected in 1976.
(b) The commissioner’s districts of the county as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section shall be divided as follows: District No. 1 shall embrace and comprise Beats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. District No. 2 shall embrace and comprise Beats 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
District No. 3 shall embrace and be comprised of the following sections located in Beat 7 of such county; T22N, Range 27E, Sections 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, and 24; T22N, Range 28E, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, plus all of the area within the corporate limits of the City of Lanett. District No. 4, shall embrace and be comprised of the following sections located in Beat 7; T22N, Range 27E, Sections 25, 26, 35, and 36; T22N, Range 28E, Sections 31, 32, 33, 34, and all of that portion of Section 35 and 36 not within the corporate limits of the City of Lanett; plus T22N, Range 29E, Sections 31 and 32. District 4 shall also embrace and be comprised of the following sections located in Beat 13: T21N, Range 28E, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22; T21N, Range 29E, Sections 5 and 6.
District 5 shall embrace and be comprised of the following sections located in Beat 13: T21N, Range 28E, Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36; T21N, Range 29E, Sections 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34; T20N, Range 28E, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; T20N, Range 29E, Sections 4, 5, and 6.
(c) The Chambers County Commission shall have all of the jurisdiction and powers which are, or which hereafter may be vested in county commissions, boards of revenue, or other like governing bodies of the state by general law, or in the governing body of any such county by local law. The county commission shall meet at least two times in each calendar month, and at the first meeting of each year shall elect a chairman from their number who shall serve as such for a one year term.
(d) As of the beginning of the terms of office of the first members of the Chambers County Commission, as herein provided, the judge of probate of the county shall have no duties, powers, and authority shall be assumed by the chairman of the commission as provided herein. Any compensation or allowances paid to the judge of probate for his or her duties in connection with the governing body shall cease at the time the members of the county commission take office as provided herein.