260C.13  Director districts.
  1.  The board of a merged area may change the number of directors on the board and shall make corresponding changes in the boundaries of director districts. Changes shall be completed not later than August 1 of the year of the regular school election. As soon as possible after adoption of the boundary changes, notice of changes in the director district boundaries shall be submitted by the merged area to the county commissioner of elections in all counties included in whole or in part in the merged area.
  2.  The board of the merged area shall redraw boundary lines of director districts in the merged area after each federal decennial census.
  3.  Boundary lines of director districts shall be drawn according to the following standards:
  a.  All boundaries shall follow precinct boundaries or school director district boundaries unless a merged area director district boundary follows the boundary of a school district which divides one or more election precincts.
  b.  To the extent possible in order to comply with paragraph “a”, all districts shall be as nearly equal as practicable to the ideal population for the districts as determined by dividing the number of districts to be established into the population of the merged area.
  c.  All districts shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact as practicable.
  d.  Consideration shall not be given to the addresses of incumbent officeholders, political affiliations of registered voters, previous election results, or demographic information other than population head counts, except as required by the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
  e.  A city shall not be divided into two or more director districts unless the population of that portion of the city that is within the merged area is greater than the ideal size of a director district. Cities shall be divided into the smallest number of director districts possible.
  4.  If more than one incumbent officeholder resides in a district redrawn during reprecincting, their terms of office expire after the next regular school election.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §280A.23(2); C79, §280A.28, 280A.30; C81, §280A.28, 280A.29; 82 Acts, ch 1136, §9]
C83, §280A.13
C93, §260C.13
94 Acts, ch 1179, §14, 15; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §4, 21; 2010 Acts, ch 1033, §33, 34; 2017 Acts, ch 155, §3, 9, 10
Referred to in §39.24
Applicability of 2017 amendment to subsection 1 to regular school elections and to terms of office of directors of local school districts, merged areas, and area education agencies; 
2017 Acts, ch 155, §10
2017 amendment to subsection 1 effective July 1, 2019; 
2017 Acts, ch 155, §9
Subsection 1 amended