2006 Kansas Code - 19-2699

      19-2699.   Cloud county fair board; membership; qualifications; election; term; vacancies. The county fair board of Cloud county shall consist of 12 members. An annual election for members of the fair board to succeed members with expiring terms shall be conducted in conjunction with the annual meeting of the county extension council in Cloud county. At such annual election one member of the board shall be elected from each county commissioner district and one member shall be elected from the county at large. Any person of legal voting age and residing in a county commissioner district shall be eligible for membership from that district on the board. Any person of legal voting age and residing in the county shall be eligible to at large membership on the board. Board members elected from county commissioner districts shall be elected by the qualified electors residing in such district and in attendance at the election meeting. Board members elected from the county at large shall be elected by all of the qualified electors residing in the county and in attendance at the election meeting. Upon assembling at such meeting the qualified electors of each county commissioner district shall separate into their individual groups and elect the member to be elected from that district, following which a member from the county at large shall be elected by all the qualified electors in attendance.

      Except as hereinafter provided the term of office of each member shall be three years. Members of the board shall be eligible to serve for two consecutive terms. Vacancies in the membership of the board shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the board for the unexpired term of office. Members of the board shall elect from among its own members a president and a vice-president.

      Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, three members of the fair board from each county commissioner district in the county and three members from the county at large shall be elected at the first election meeting held under the provisions of this section. Of the three members elected from each county commissioner district and of the three members elected from the county at large, one shall be elected to serve for a term of one year, one shall be elected to serve for a term of two years, and one shall be elected to serve for a term of three years.

      History:   L. 1987, ch. 94, § 1; July 1.