§ 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may
establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light,
sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having
the powers, duties and responsibilities of two or more such separate
boards.

2. The board of trustees may also establish or abolish a separate
board of police commissioners.

3. The board of trustees shall establish the composition, powers,
duties and responsibilities of each board of commissioners and may, from
time to time, amend same.

4. Any board established hereunder shall be composed of not less than
three members, who shall perform their duties subject to the approval of
the board of trustees.

5. The mayor, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, shall
appoint the members of any board of commissioners and the first
appointments of members thereto shall be for terms so fixed that at
least one will expire at the end of each official year commencing at the
end of the current such year and continuing in succeeding year until the
entire original appointments run out. No such term shall exceed five
years.

6. Commencing with the first annual meeting following the
establishment of any such board, and continuing annually thereafter,
successors to former appointees, the term of whose offices have then
expired, shall be appointed for a full term. The length of such term
shall be determined by the board of trustees but in no event shall
exceed five years.

7. A person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be
eligible for appointment to any board of fire commissioners. Any fire
commissioner who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term of
office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.

8. The board of trustees may also abolish any such board or boards
established under any prior provision of law. If not so abolished such
board or boards shall continue and the commissioners thereof shall
continue in office during their respective terms.

9. Any action of the board of trustees hereunder establishing,
relating to or abolishing any such board or fixing the terms of office
of the members thereof shall be by resolution or local law adopted at a
regular meeting by a majority vote of the entire board. No such action
shall be taken unless a public hearing has first been held of which at
least ten days public notice shall have been given by publication in the
official village newspaper, or, if there be none, in a newspaper of
general circulation in the village.