TITLE 31

COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

CHAPTER 14

FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

31-1410A.  Decision to increase the size of the board. (1) Subsequent to the creation of a fire protection district and the appointment of the first board of fire protection commissioners, the fire protection board may, by a majority vote of all of the fire protection district board members, elect to increase the size of the board to five (5) members.

(2)  If the board of fire protection commissioners elects to expand the board to five (5) members, the existing board members shall subdivide the district into five (5) subdivisions as nearly equal in population, area, and mileage as practicable to be known as subdistricts one, two, three, four and five.

(3)  At the first election following the decision of the board of fire protection commissioners to expand the board from three (3) to five (5) members, five (5) commissioners shall be elected. The commissioners from fire protection subdistricts one and two shall be elected to a term of two (2) years, the commissioners from subdistricts three, four, and five shall be elected to a term of four (4) years. Thereafter, the term of all commissioners shall be four (4) years.

(4)  A fire district that, prior to the effective date of this section, had elected to expand a board from three (3) to five (5) members shall, prior to the next election of the district, adopt a transition schedule as nearly reflecting the schedule provided in this section as possible. For commissioners whose offices expire in 2012 and in any even-numbered year, such commissioners shall remain in office until the next election in an odd-numbered year.

History:

[(31-1410A) 31-1408A, added 1998, ch. 190, sec. 2, p. 692; am. 2001, ch. 109, sec. 1, p. 372; am. and redesig. 2006, ch. 318, sec. 5, p. 992; am. 2011, ch. 11, sec. 4, p. 28; am. 2024, ch. 16, sec. 9, p. 143.]