(a) The board shall recommend to the Harris County Commissioners Court persons to serve on the succeeding board.
(b) After reviewing the board’s recommendations of persons to serve on the succeeding board, the commissioners court shall appoint as directors or disapprove the recommended persons.

(c) If the governing body of the City of Houston objects to any of the board’s recommendations of persons to serve on the succeeding board, the board, on the request of the commissioners court, shall submit additional recommendations.
(d) Board members may serve successive terms.
(e) If any provision of Subsections (a) through (d) is found to be invalid, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall appoint the succeeding board from recommendations of persons to serve on the succeeding board submitted by the board.