Membership ACTIVE

The commission shall consist of ten members who shall serve for a term of four years or until their successors have been made and qualified, as follows: Three members shall be appointed, one each, by the Sabine River Authority, the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development, and the director of the Louisiana Tourism Development Commission. The police juries of Sabine, DeSoto, and Vernon parishes each shall appoint two members, in each instance one of the appointments to be from the membership of the police jury and one from the qualified electors residing in the parish. The nine members thus appointed shall select the remaining member from a panel of four names which shall be submitted to them, one each, by those landowners who grant to the commission the four largest servitudes adjacent to the Toledo Bend Forest Scenic Drive, said member to serve a term concurrent with the other members.