2005 Idaho Code - 40-1404A — ELECTIONS, TERMS AND SALARIES OF COMMISSIONERS IN CERTAIN COUNTYWIDE HIGHWAY DISTRICTS

                                  TITLE  40
                             HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
                                  CHAPTER 14
                     SINGLE COUNTY-WIDE HIGHWAY DISTRICTS
    40-1404A.  ELECTIONS, TERMS AND SALARIES OF COMMISSIONERS IN CERTAIN
COUNTYWIDE HIGHWAY DISTRICTS. In countywide highway districts located in a
county with a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) persons
in which the voters have chosen to establish a countywide highway district at
a previous election, the county shall be divided by the county commissioners
immediately upon the effective date of this act into five (5) subdistricts
which shall be as nearly equal in population as practicable. No precincts
shall be divided. A highway district commissioner shall be a resident of the
subdistrict which he represents. Voters in each subdistrict shall vote only
for one (1) candidate seeking to represent that subdistrict. County
commissioners, mayors and city council members shall not be eligible to hold
office as a countywide highway district commissioner. At the election held in
1998, commissioners representing subdistricts two and five shall be elected
for two (2) year terms and commissioners representing subdistricts three and
four shall be elected for four (4) year terms. Thereafter, all commissioners
shall be elected for four (4) year terms. Any incumbent in office on the
effective date of this act may complete the term to which they were elected
and shall represent the subdistrict in which they reside. Any incumbent in
office on the effective date of this act whose term expires on January 1,
2000, shall retain that office until January 1, 2000, shall be assigned the
subdistrict in which they reside by the county commissioners, which
subdistrict  shall be numbered one as provided in this section and that
commissioner need not stand for election in 1998.
    A qualified voter of the countywide highway district shall be eligible to
vote for a countywide highway district commissioner residing in the elector's
subdistrict, and the election shall be conducted as provided by Idaho statutes
relating to holding  general elections at the county level.
    The highway commissioners shall take office on  January 1 of the year
immediately following their election, and each may be compensated in
accordance with the provisions of section 40-1314, Idaho Code, or receive a
salary not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per calendar
month with the exception of the president of the highway commissioners who may
receive a salary not to exceed one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400) per
calendar month.