2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 267 - DRAINAGE AND RECLAMATION ACT OF 1912 267.510 Board for separate district -- Election -- Term -- Vacancies.
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267.510 Board for separate district -- Election -- Term -- Vacancies.
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As soon as practicable after the judgment establishing a separate drainage
district becomes final, the county judge/executive shall, with the advice and
assistance of the engineer, enter an order dividing the district into three (3)
precincts, as near equal in area of lands reported as benefited as is
practicable, and calling a meeting of the landowners affected, to be had at
some public place in the county in which the proceeding is pending, at a day
and hour fixed in the order. The date for the meeting shall be not less than
twenty (20) days from the entry of the order calling it. The county clerk shall
give notice of the meeting by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, and by
posting not less than five (5) posters in different public places in the district at
least fifteen (15) days before the date set. The landowners, when assembled,
shall organize by the election of a chairman and secretary of the meeting, who
shall conduct the election. At this election each acre of land, as near as may be
arrived at by estimate or from the evidence heard before the county
judge/executive on the cross-petition, shall represent one (1) share, and each
owner shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each share estimated to be owned by
him in the district. The name of at least one (1) person shall be put in
nomination for the office of district commissioner from each of the three (3)
precincts. The one (1) person from each of the three (3) precincts receiving the
highest number of votes shall be declared elected as district commissioner.
The district commissioner shall immediately by lot determine the terms of their
office, which shall be, respectively, one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, and
shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified.
Each year after the election of the first district board, at such time and place in
the district as the district board designates, and after notice, as above
provided, the landowners in the district shall meet and elect one (1) district
commissioner, who shall be an owner of land in the same precinct as that in
which the district commissioner whose term is about to expire owns land, and
who shall hold office for three (3) years and until his successor is elected and
qualified. In case of a vacancy in any office of district commissioner, the
remaining district commissioners may fill the vacancy, with some person having
the precinct qualification, until the next annual election, when a successor shall
be elected for the unexpired term. A district commissioner whose term is
expiring shall be eligible for reelection.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 412, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 188. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208,
sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2380-20.
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