539.365 - Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.

539.365  Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.  Upon presentation to the board of directors of the district of a petition, signed by a majority of the electors of such division representing at least one-half of the total acreage thereof, describing in a general way the local matters proposed to be undertaken, and the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data, and naming two electors of such division for local directors thereof, the board of directors of the district shall consider such petition at a regular meeting, and, if it finds that the law has been complied with, shall approve the same and appoint the electors named in the petition as members of the local board.

      [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]