Section 12.2. Vacancy in Office of Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner.
(1) If a vacancy shall occur in the office of Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner:
(a) An election shall be held at the next feasible general municipal election to elect a successor, as provided in subsection (b). In the interim, the remaining members of the Rent Stabilization Board shall appoint a successor with requisite qualifications to fill the vacancy until such election. Such interim appointment shall be made only at a regular meeting of the Rent Stabilization Board after reasonable notice of intent to fill the vacancy has been given to the remaining members of the Board by any Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner by placement on the Rent Stabilization Board agenda. The term of such appointed Commissioner shall expire on November 30 of the year that an election is held to elect a successor, as provided in subsection (b).
(b) If the vacancy occurs within the first two years of the four year term of the office being vacated, and there is sufficient time to nominate and elect a successor at the next general municipal election, the Commissioner elected shall serve the remaining two years of the term of the vacated office. At any general municipal election that includes an election to fill the unexpired term of a Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner, the Commissioner elected with the fewest votes shall serve the remaining two years of the unexpired term. If the vacancy occurs after the first two years of the four year term of the vacated office, the election for that office shall be held at the next general municipal election as required by this Charter even if the office was not vacant.
(2) If at any municipal election the required number of Rent Stabilization Board Commissioners are not elected by reason of a tie vote among any of the candidates, then the Rent Stabilization Board, after the qualification of the persons, if any, elected at the election, shall appoint the necessary number of the persons receiving the tie vote to fill any office vacant by reason of the tie vote. In this case, any person so appointed shall hold office, subject to the provisions of a recall, to and including November 30, following the next general municipal election.