Where action by the board of supervisors is necessary or deemed advisable by the board of supervisors or the temporary county redistricting commission, the boundaries of precincts shall be definitely fixed by ordinance. A public hearing shall be held before final action is taken to adopt changes in the precinct boundaries. Notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing shall be given as provided in chapter 21. In the absence of contrary action by the board of supervisors or the temporary county redistricting commission, each civil township which does not include any part of a city of over two thousand population, and the portion of each civil township containing any such city which lies outside the corporate limits of that city or those cities, shall constitute an election precinct. If no action is necessary to change the county election precincts, the board of supervisors shall certify the retained boundaries to the state commissioner, as required by section 49.7.
1. Where a civil township, or the portion of a civil township outside the corporate limits of any city of over two thousand population contained therein, is divided into two or more election precincts, the precincts shall be so drawn that their total populations shall be reasonably equal on the basis of data available from the most recent federal decennial census.
2. Counties using alternative supervisor representation plans "two" or "three", as described in section 331.206, shall be apportioned into single-member supervisor districts on the basis of population. In counties using representation plan "three", the boundaries of supervisor districts shall follow the boundaries of election precincts.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Indian settlement lying in Tama, Toledo and Indian Village townships of Tama county shall be an election precinct, and the polling place of that precinct shall be located in the structure commonly called the Indian school located in section 19, township 83 north, range 15 west, or in such structure as designated by the election commissioner of Tama county.
[C73, § 603; C97, § 1090; S13, § 1090; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 722, 725; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 49.4, 49.7; C75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 49.4; 81 Acts, ch 117, § 1203]
94 Acts, ch 1179, §6
Referred to in § 49.7, 49.8, 49.11, 273.8, 331.210A, 331.383
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