19-2757

Chapter 19.--COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS
Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS

      19-2757.   Same; record of organization; first election.That it shall be the duty of the board of county commissionersincorporating any improvement district under the provisions of this act tocause an entry to be made upon its records showing all of its declarations,findings, decisions and orders made pursuant to the preceding sections,which entry shall define the limits of the improvement district to be soincorporated in conformity to the description contained in the petition,and such entry shall, if the petition requesting the incorporation of thedistrict was signed by residents of the district, fix the time and place ofholding the first election to choose such officers of such improvementdistrict as are hereinafter required to be elected, and designate five (5)taxpayers residing within such district, three (3) to act as judges and two(2) to act as clerks of such election; and if the petition requesting theincorporation of the district was signed by the owners of the propertywithin the district not residents thereof, such entry shall contain thenames of three (3) persons, selected by the board of county commissionersfrom a list of five (5) nominees presented by unanimous consent of all ofthe owners of all of the real property within the district, to serve asinterim directors of such improvement district until directors are electedat an election held on the first Tuesday in March next following the firstJanuary in which the county election officer shall certify that thequalified electors residing in such district number one hundred (100) ormore. Upon the receipt of such certification from the county electionofficer, the board of county commissioners shall fix the time and place forthe holding of the election and designate judges and clerks therefor in themanner hereinbefore provided. All declarations, determinations, findings,decisions and orders of such board of county commissioners so entered ofrecord shall be conclusive on all persons, so that no matter or fact sodetermined shall ever be disputed by anyone, and such record, or a properlyauthenticated copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence in all courts ofthe matter therein recited and of the corporate existence of suchimprovement district.

      History:   L. 1945, ch. 180, § 5; L. 1969, ch. 156, §4; July 1.