§ 36-7-18-9 — Commissioners; removal from office

(a) A commissioner of a housing authority may
be removed for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office,
by:
(1) the city executive, for a city housing authority;
(2) the town fiscal body, for a town housing authority; or
(3) the county fiscal body, for a county housing authority.
(b) A commissioner may be removed under subsection (a) only if
the commissioner was given a copy of the charges at least ten (10) days
before a hearing on the charges and had an opportunity to be heard in
person or by counsel. In a city, the fiscal body shall appoint the hearing
officer for the hearing, which may not be the city executive when the
city executive is the person bringing the charges. The commissioner
against whom the charges are made may require that the hearing be
open to the public. After the removal of a commissioner, a record of the
proceedings, together with the charges and findings, shall be filed in
the office of the clerk of the fiscal body of the unit.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-4-8-5
part; 18-7-11-7.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.37. Amended by Acts
1981, P.L.313, SEC.1; P.L.344-1987, SEC.4; P.L.127-2017,
SEC.213.