TITLE 43

IRRIGATION DISTRICTS

CHAPTER 1

ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT

43-112.  Conduct of elections. (1) Such election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the general laws of the state: provided, no particular form of ballot shall be required, and that the provisions of the election laws as to the form and distribution of ballots shall not apply.

Said board of county commissioners shall establish one (1) or more election precincts, not exceeding seven (7), as may be necessary, and define the boundaries thereof, which boundaries, when the district is divided into precincts, shall be the same as the division boundaries above-provided for and which said precincts may thereafter be changed by the board of directors of such district as may be necessary: provided, that districts containing more than ten thousand (10,000) acres shall have not less than three (3), nor more than seven (7) voting precincts.

Said board shall also appoint three (3) judges of election for each such election precinct, who shall perform the same duties as near as may be as judges of election, under the general laws of the state.

(2)  When an irrigation district has duly adopted the voting system set forth in subsection (2) of section 43-111, Idaho Code, and a person seeks to vote at any district election, following completion of an electors oath as required by section 43-113, Idaho Code, one (1) of the judges of election shall deliver to the elector the number of ballots for the votes the elector is entitled to cast, as shown by the registrar’s list of assessed lands within the district.

History:

[(43-112) 1903, p. 150, sec. 3; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; R.C., sec. 2376; am. 1915, ch. 47, sec. 1, p. 134; reen. C.L., sec. 2376; C.S., sec. 4324; am. 1925, ch. 123, sec. 1, p. 169; I.C.A., sec. 42-112; am. 2006, ch. 200, sec. 2, p. 616.]