The Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement and Benefit Fund, under the terms and provisions of West Virginia Code 8-22-4, shall consist of the Mayor and four members of the Fund who shall hereafter be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the majority of the members of the Fund. The initial appointments of the four members of the Board of Trustees shall be for terms of one, two, three and four years respectively, after which all appointments shall be for the term of four years. The presiding officer of the board shall be the Mayor, and the secretary thereof shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees.
(1961 Code Sec. 143.05)