(a) The organization and composition of the County Commission of Elmore County is altered to comply with this section. The governing body shall continue to be known as the County Commission of Elmore County and shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities conferred upon it by the general laws of Alabama relating to county commissions insofar as they are consistent with this section. For the purpose of transacting official business, a quorum shall consist of three commissioners.
(b) Each member of the Elmore County Commission shall represent a separate district. Only the qualified electors residing in a district may vote to elect the commissioner representing the respective district. No person shall be eligible as a candidate for county commissioner unless he or she is a bona fide resident of the district he or she seeks to represent. Each member of the county commission shall reside in the district he or she represents during his or her term of office.
(c) Beginning with the term of office which starts in January 1993, the five members of the Elmore County Commission shall elect from among themselves a chair who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The chair shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities given to the chair of the county commission by general law or by local law relating to Elmore County. While serving in that office, the chair shall receive three thousand dollars ($3,000) annually in addition to his or her commissioner's salary. In the event of a vacancy in the office of chair during any term of office, the members of the commission shall elect a chair from among themselves to complete the term of office. Immediately upon election of a chair, the judge of probate shall cease to be an ex officio member and chair of the county commission.
(d) Any vacancy occurring in the office of commissioner shall be filled in the manner otherwise provided by law concerning the filling of vacancies of county commissioners.
(e)(1) For the purposes of this section, and for future elections for members of the county commission, Elmore County is hereby divided into five separate geographical districts, to be numbers one to five, inclusive, as set out in a map prepared by the Central Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission and officially approved by the Elmore County Commission at its meeting of January 13, 1992.
(2) A map and legal description of the five districts shall be retained in the office of the judge of probate as a permanent public record and shall be filed by the judge of probate with the Secretary of State.
(f) The county commission may, pursuant to a duly adopted resolution, establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in order to create a voting center in order to facilitate, or reduce costs, for elections, pursuant to the authority provided 17-5A-5.