2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 303 - DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
303.49 - ELECTION OF TRUSTEES -- TERMS -- VACANCIES.

        303.49  ELECTION OF TRUSTEES -- TERMS -- VACANCIES.
         1.  If the proposition to establish a land use district carries, a
      special election shall be called by the board of supervisors of the
      county which conducted the election to form the district.  This
      special election shall be held within the newly created district at a
      single polling place designated by the county auditor not more than
      ninety days after the organization of the land use district.  The
      election shall be held for the purpose of electing the initial seven
      members of the board of trustees of the land use district.  The
      county auditor shall cause notice of the election to be posted and
      published, and shall perform all other acts with reference to the
      election, and conduct it in like manner, as nearly as may be, as
      provided in this subchapter for the election on the question of
      establishing the district.  Each trustee must be a United States
      citizen not less than eighteen years of age and a resident of the
      district.  Each registered voter at the election may write in upon
      the ballot the names of not more than seven persons whom the voter
      desires for trustees and may cast not more than one vote for each of
      the seven persons.  The seven persons receiving the highest number of
      votes cast shall constitute the first board of trustees of the
      district.
         2.  Following the initial special election, an annual election
      shall be held at a single polling place within the district
      designated by the county auditor for the purpose of electing a
      trustee to replace a trustee whose term will expire.  The board of
      trustees, in consultation with the county auditor, shall select the
      election date.  The county auditor shall perform all other acts with
      reference to the election and conduct it in like manner, as nearly as
      may be, as provided in chapters 45 and 49.  Each registered voter at
      the election may vote for one person whom the voter desires as a
      trustee for each expiring term.  The term of office for each trustee
      elected shall be three years.
         3.  Vacancies in the office of trustee of a land use district may
      be filled by the remaining members of the board of trustees for the
      period extending to the next annual election at which time the
      registered voters of the district shall elect a new trustee to fill
      the vacancy for the unexpired term.  Expenses incurred in carrying
      out the annual elections of trustees shall be paid for by the land
      use district.
         4.  When the initial board of trustees is elected under this
      section the trustees shall be ranked in the order of votes received
      from highest to lowest.  Any ties shall be resolved by a random
      method.  The last ranked trustee shall receive an initial term
      expiring at the next annual election for trustees, the sixth and
      fifth ranked trustees receive an initial term expiring one year
      later, the fourth ranked trustee receives an initial term expiring
      two years after that election, the third and second ranked trustees
      receive initial terms expiring three years after that election, and
      the first ranked trustee shall receive an initial term expiring four
      years after that election.  

         83 Acts, ch 108, § 9; 85 Acts, ch 161, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §64;
      97 Acts, ch 83, §1
         Referred to in § 303.64