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House File 288

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Bill Introduced: H.J. 423
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PAG LIN
  1  1    Section 1.  Section 468.504, Code 2001, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    468.504  ELECTION DISTRICTS.
  1  4    When a petition has been filed for the election of trustees
  1  5 to manage a district containing three twenty thousand acres or
  1  6 more, the board, or, if the district extends into more than
  1  7 one county, the boards of such the counties by joint action,
  1  8 shall, before the election, divide the district into three
  1  9 election districts for the purpose of securing a proper
  1 10 distribution of trustees in such the district, and such the
  1 11 division shall be so made that each election district will
  1 12 have substantially equal voting power and acreage, as nearly
  1 13 as may be.  After such the division is made there shall be
  1 14 elected one trustee for each of said the election districts,
  1 15 but at such the election all the qualified voters for the
  1 16 entire district shall be entitled to vote for each trustee.
  1 17 The division here provided for shall be for the purposes only
  1 18 of a proper distribution of trustees in the district and shall
  1 19 not otherwise affect said the district or its management and
  1 20 control.  
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    This bill increases the size of drainage or levee districts
  1 23 required to have election districts from 3,000 acres or more
  1 24 to 20,000 acres or more.  The election districts are created
  1 25 by the board of supervisors of the county or counties included
  1 26 in the drainage or levee district.  
  1 27 LSB 1885HH 79
  1 28 tj/gg/8.1

Text: HF00287                           Text: HF00289
Text: HF00200 - HF00299                 Text: HF Index
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