46-185 Discontinuance of district; petition; special election; notice; procedure.
46-185. Discontinuance of district; petition; special election; notice; procedure.Whenever a majority of the assessment payers, representing a majority of the number of acres of irrigable land within any irrigation district, shall petition the board of directors to call a special election, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of such irrigation district a proposition to vote on the discontinuance of such irrigation district and a settlement of its bonded and other indebtedness, it shall be the duty of the board of directors to call an election, setting forth the object of the same, and to cause a notice of such election to be published in some newspaper in each of the counties in which the district is located, and in which a newspaper is published, for a period of thirty days prior to such election, setting forth the time and place for holding such election in each of the voting precincts in the district; and shall also cause a written or printed notice of such election to be posted in some conspicuous place in each of the voting precincts. It shall also be the duty of the directors to provide ballots to be used at such election, on which shall be written or printed the words For discontinuance ..... Yes, and For discontinuance ..... No. The ballots shall be placed in the hands of the proper election officers in the several voting precincts of such district prior to the opening of the polls on the day of such election; and the election shall be conducted in all respects in the same manner as provided by law for the election of officers of the district. The return of the election, together with the ballots cast thereat, shall be certified by the several election boards of such district to the board of directors within three days from and after the election, which board shall, on or before the third day after the election, canvass such returns and declare the result of such election, which result shall be at once recorded in the records of the district board. SourceLaws 1897, c. 91, §§ 1, 2, p. 372; Laws 1903, c. 123, § 1, p. 625; R.S.1913, § 3521; C.S.1922, § 2921; C.S.1929, § 46-166; R.S.1943, § 46-185.