No fewer than 10 commissioners serving at any one time shall reside within the territory of the merged program.
Upon creation of a merged program, a commissioner shall serve for the term for which he or she was appointed and until a successor is appointed and qualified. All succeeding terms shall be for 3 years, or until a successor is appointed and qualified, and no commissioner may serve more than 2 consecutive terms. Commissioners shall serve without compensation except for reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of duties as a commissioner. A vacancy in the office of a member of the commission shall be filled in like manner as an original appointment.
All proceedings and meetings of the governing commission shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Open Meetings Act, as now or hereafter amended.
Upon creation of a merged program, the members of each of the 2 programs merged into the merged program shall be members of the merged program, the guarantee funds of each shall be merged, and they shall be operated as a single program.
65 ILCS 95/4.2