Code of Alabama
Part 2 - Stadium and Exposition.
Section 45-37A-54.32 - Board of Commissioners.

(a) The district shall be governed by a board of commissioners which shall be composed of the following members:
(1) Two persons appointed by the Jefferson County House delegation.
(2) Two persons appointed by the Jefferson County Senate delegation.
(3) One person appointed by the Mayor of the City of Birmingham.
(b) The terms of office of the members shall be as follows:
(1) The members appointed by the Jefferson County House delegation shall serve a term of three years.
(2) The members appointed by the Jefferson County Senate delegation shall serve a term of four years.
(3) The member appointed by the Mayor of the City of Birmingham shall serve a term of two years.
(c) After the initial appointment, each member shall serve four-year terms until his or her successor is appointed. All members shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authorities and shall be appointed from the state at large. No person shall be eligible for board membership who holds local, municipal, county, state, or federal elective office or any local, municipal, county, state, or federal nonelective office. In addition, any member of the board shall be deemed to have resigned his or her board membership upon acceptance of any nonelective office with any local, municipal, county, state, or federal governmental body or upon qualifying as a candidate for any elective office and shall immediately, upon resignation, lose all rights and privileges as a member of the board. Each member shall receive a per diem of fifty dollars ($50) while in attendance of board meetings or on business of the board as directed by the board. Each member shall be reimbursed for actual travel expenses incurred in connection with the board meetings. However, no member of the board of commissioners shall receive more than five hundred dollars ($500) per month.
(d) The domicile of the district shall be in the City of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. Upon appropriate action of the board of commissioners, the domicile may be relocated within the district to appropriate quarters within the principal structure or facility constructed or acquired by the district.
(e) After their appointment, the commissioners shall meet at the domicile and elect from their number a president, a vice president, and any other officers deemed necessary.
(1) The secretary and the treasurer of the board, which offices may be combined, may be selected by the board from its membership or otherwise selected by the board.
(2) The duties of the officers shall be defined and their salaries fixed by the board. The board shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for its government.
(3) The board may employ engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction advisors, financial advisors, superintendents, and other employees and agents deemed necessary and fix their compensation.
(4) A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Voting by proxy shall be permitted.
(5) The board shall keep a record of all of its proceedings. The records of the board shall be public records available for inspection and copying at a reasonable cost by news media and any citizen during regular business hours.