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ID Code § 43-206 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-206 - NOTICE OF ELECTION — APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES.

43-206. NOTICE OF ELECTION — APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES. (1) The secretary of the district shall give notice of all elections in said district subsequent to the organization thereof, by posting the same in three (3) public places in each such precinct and in the office of said board, at least four (4) weeks before the day of such election, or by publication of the same once a week for two (2) successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation within said district. If notice be given by publication in a weekly newspaper, the same shall be published in two (2) successive issues thereof, or, if in a daily newspaper, at least six (6) days shall elapse between the first and last dates of publication, and, in either case, publication shall be completed not less than fifteen (15) days before such election. Notices shall state the time of said election and the polling place for each precinct and the director to be elected or other question to be voted upon, as the case may be. At least ten (10) days before the holding of any such election, the board of directors shall appoint three (3) electors of each precinct to serve as judges of election for such precinct, and such judges shall constitute a board of election for such precinct. (2) A polling place for a precinct need not be located in the precinct, but shall be located within the district. Polling places for two (2) or more precincts may be combined at one (1) location, as long as the physical arrangements of the polling place are sufficient to guarantee all voters the right to cast a secret ballot. Any combined polling place thus created shall be no farther than ten (10) miles outside of the precinct which is losing its polling place. In cases of combined polling places, the board of directors shall name one (1) elector from each of the combined precincts to serve as judges of election for that polling place. (3) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, irrigation districts comprising fifteen thousand (15,000) or fewer irrigated acres within their boundary may, upon resolution of the board of directors, combine all precincts into one (1) polling place. In cases where such a district resolves to combine precincts into a single polling place, the polling place shall be the irrigation district office, and the board of directors shall name one (1) elector from each precinct to serve as judges of election at the combined polling place.  History: [43-206, added 1903, sec. 5, p. 150; am. 1907, sec. 1, p. 484, part of subd. 5; reen. R.C., sec. 2379; am. 1913, ch. 116, sec. 1, p. 453; reen. C.L., sec. 2379; C.S., sec. 4335; I.C.A., sec. 42-206; am. 1951, ch. 149, sec. 1, p. 342; am. 1965, ch. 29, sec. 1, p. 47; am. 1975, ch. 240, sec. 1, p. 649; am. 1976, ch. 146, sec. 1, p. 532; am. 2014, ch. 71, sec. 2, p. 178; am. 2020, ch. 177, sec. 1, p. 549.]
ID Code § 43-207 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-207 - CONDUCT OF ELECTION.

43-207. CONDUCT OF ELECTION. Said judges shall elect a chairman, who may administer any oath required in the progress of an election, and may appoint additional judges if, during the progress of election, any judges cease to act. Said judges of election shall not appoint clerks of election unless they deem it necessary to have the assistance of clerks in order to accommodate the number of electors who desire to vote. Any member of the board of election, or any clerk thereof, may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of the election. Before opening the polls, each member of the board of election and each clerk, in case clerks are appointed, must take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon them by law. Any elector of the precinct may administer and certify such oath. The time of opening and closing the polls, the manner of conducting the election, canvassing and announcing the result, the keeping of tally lists, and the making and certifying said result, and the disposition of the ballots after the election, shall be the same as near as may be, as provided for election under the general election laws of the state: provided, that the returns shall be delivered to the secretary of the district, and the election oaths shall be included with such returns; provided further, that by resolution of the board of directors duly entered on the minutes, at any regular meeting, and notice thereof given in the notices of election, any irrigation district may provide for the opening of the polls at 1 o’clock P.M. and closing at 7 P.M.  History: [(43-207) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 6; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1, part of subd. 6; reen. R.C., sec. 2380; am. 1915, ch. 87, sec. 1, part of subd. 2380, p. 205; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2380; C.S., sec. 4336; I.C.A., sec. 42-207; am. 1941, ch. 36, sec. 1, p. 83; am. 1945, ch. 7, sec. 1, p. 9.]
ID Code § 43-208 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-208 - CANVASS OF RETURNS.

43-208. CANVASS OF RETURNS. The board of directors must meet at its usual place of meeting on or before the next regularly scheduled board meeting following each election to canvass the returns, and they shall proceed in the same manner and with like effect, as near as may be, as the board of county commissioners in canvassing the returns of general elections, and when they shall have declared the result, the secretary shall enter a statement of the result on the records of the board of directors as required by section 43-213, Idaho Code. The board of directors must declare elected the person or persons having the highest number of votes for each office.   History: [(43-208) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 6; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1, part of subd. 6; reen. R.C., sec. 2380; am. 1915, ch. 87, sec. 1, p. 205; reen. C.L., sec. 2380a; C.S., sec. 4337; I.C.A., sec. 42-208; am. 2008, ch. 207, sec. 1, p. 661; am. 2013, ch. 133, sec. 3, p. 305.]
ID Code § 43-209 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-209 - VACANCIES.

43-209. VACANCIES. (1) Each director shall meet the qualification requirements of section 43-201(3), Idaho Code, during his term of office. Each director shall notify the other directors if circumstances change so that he will no longer meet those requirements during his term of office, or if any of the events specified in section 59-901, Idaho Code, are occurring or have occurred. The remaining directors shall have the authority to determine whether a vacancy in the office of director has occurred upon the director no longer qualifying to serve as a director as provided in section 43-201(3), Idaho Code, or upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in section 59-901, Idaho Code. (2) If the remaining directors determine that a vacancy in the office of director has occurred as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the remaining directors shall, by resolution, declare that the vacancy shall be filled as herein provided. The remaining directors may allow the disqualified director to remain in office temporarily until his successor is appointed or elected if they determine that they will be unable to conduct the district’s affairs without a director serving in that office. The disqualified director shall not remain in office after the district’s next regular election. (3) After declaring a vacancy, the remaining directors shall fill such vacancy by appointing thereto a qualified elector under the provisions of section 43-201, Idaho Code. A director appointed to fill a vacancy shall take and subscribe the official oath and execute a bond if one is required in the case of an elected director under section 43-202, Idaho Code, and shall hold his office until the next regular election of said district, at which election a director shall be elected for the remainder of the unexpired term. (4) Any person filling a vacancy as herein provided shall possess all the rights and powers and is subject to all the liabilities, duties and obligations of the office filled.  History: [(43-209) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 6; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1, part of subd. 6; reen. R.C., sec. 2380; am. 1915, ch. 87, sec. 1, p. 205; reen. C.L., sec. 2380b; C.S., sec. 4338; I.C.A., sec. 42-209; am. 1953, ch. 130, p. 206; am. 2014, ch. 70, sec. 1, p. 177; am. 2014, ch. 71, sec. 3, p. 179; am. 2021, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 353.]
ID Code § 43-210 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-210 - VOTING AND COUNT OF BALLOTS.

43-210. VOTING AND COUNT OF BALLOTS. Voting may commence as soon as the polls are open and may continue during all the time the polls remain open, and shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of title 34 of this code relating to elections. As soon as the polls are closed the judges shall open the ballot box and shall commence counting the votes; and in no case shall the ballot box be removed from the room in which the election is held until all the ballots have been counted. The counting of ballots shall in all cases be public. The ballots shall be taken out, one by one by the chairman of the board of election or one (1) of the judges, who shall open them and read aloud the name of each person contained thereon, and the office for which every such person is voted for. Each clerk shall write down each office to be filled, and the name of each person voted for such office, and shall keep the number of votes by tallies as they are read by such chairman or judge. The counting of the votes shall continue without adjournment until all the votes have been counted.  History: [(43-210) 1903, p. 150, sec. 7; am. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2381; C.S., sec. 4339; I.C.A., sec. 42-210.]
ID Code § 43-211 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-211 - DISPOSAL OF BALLOTS.

43-211. DISPOSAL OF BALLOTS. As soon as all the votes are read off and counted, a certificate shall be drawn up on each of the papers containing the poll list and tallies, or attached thereto, stating the number of votes each one voted for has received, and designating the office to fill which he was voted for, which number shall be written in words and figures at full length. Each certificate shall be signed by all members of the board of election and by both clerks. One (1) of said certificates, with the poll list and tally paper to which it is attached, shall be retained by the chairman of the board of election, and preserved by him for at least six (6) months. The ballots shall be strung on a cord or thread by the said chairman, during the counting thereof, in the order in which they are entered upon the tally list by the clerks; and said ballots, together with the other of said certificates with the poll list and tally paper to which it is attached, shall be sealed by the said chairman in the presence of the other of said judges and clerks, and indorsed "Election returns of (naming precinct) precinct," and be directed to the secretary of the board of directors, and shall be immediately delivered by said chairman, or by other safe and responsible carrier designated by him, to said secretary, and the ballots shall be kept unopened for at least six (6) months, and if any person be of the opinion that the vote of any precinct has not been correctly counted he may appear on the day appointed for the board of directors to open and canvass the returns, and demand a recount of the precinct that is claimed to have been incorrectly counted.  History: [(43-211) 1903, p. 150, sec. 8; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2382; C.S., sec. 4340; I.C.A., sec. 42-211.]
ID Code § 43-212 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-212 - INFORMALITIES DISREGARDED — POSTPONEMENT OF CANVASS.

43-212. INFORMALITIES DISREGARDED — POSTPONEMENT OF CANVASS. No list, tally paper or certificate returned from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form if it can be satisfactorily understood. If, at the time of the meeting, the returns of each precinct in which polls have been opened have been received, the board of directors must then and there proceed to canvass the returns; but if all the returns have not been received, the canvass must be postponed from day to day until all the returns have been received, or until six (6) postponements have been had. The canvass must be made in public and by opening the returns and counting the vote of the district for each person voted for and declaring the result thereof.  History: [(43-212) 1903, p. 150, sec. 9; am. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2383; C.S., sec. 4341; I.C.A., sec. 42-212.]
ID Code § 43-213 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-213 - STATEMENT OF RESULT.

43-213. STATEMENT OF RESULT. The secretary of the board of directors must, as soon as the result is declared, enter on the records of such board a statement of such result, which statement must show: 1. The whole number of votes cast in the district and in each voting precinct thereof. 2. The names of the person or persons voted for. 3. The office to fill which each person was voted for. 4. The number of votes given in each precinct to such person or persons. 5. The number of votes given in the district for such person or persons. The board of directors must declare elected the person or persons having the highest number of votes given for each office.  History: [(43-213) 1903, p. 150, sec. 10; am. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2384; C.S., sec. 4342; I.C.A., sec. 42-213.]
ID Code § 43-214 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-214 - INITIATING RECALL PROCEEDINGS — STATEMENT — CONTENTS — VERIFICATION — DEFINITIONS.

43-214. INITIATING RECALL PROCEEDINGS — STATEMENT — CONTENTS — VERIFICATION — DEFINITIONS. Whenever any legal voter of the irrigation district, either individually or on behalf of an organization, desires to demand the recall and discharge of a director of an irrigation district, under the provisions of article VI, section 6, of the constitution of the state of Idaho, he shall prepare a typewritten petition. The petition may recite that the director has wilfully neglected or failed to perform faithfully a duty imposed by law; or acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner; or has committed an unlawful act; or has wrongfully acted so as to interfere with, interrupt, or adversely affect the performance of his official duty; or has violated his oath of office. The petition may describe the act or acts complained of, if applicable, in concise language, give a detailed description including the approximate date, location and nature of each act complained of, be signed by the person making the charge, give his respective post office address and be verified, under oath, that he believes the charge or charges to be true and that he has knowledge of the alleged facts relating to the charges if any have been alleged in the recall petition.  History: [43-214, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 850.]
ID Code § 43-215 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-215 - PETITION — WHERE FILED.

43-215. PETITION — WHERE FILED. Any person making a charge shall file it with the secretary of the district, whose duty it is to receive and to promptly serve a copy of the charge upon the director whose recall is demanded.  History: [43-215, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 851.]
ID Code § 43-216 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-216 - BALLOT SYNOPSIS.

43-216. BALLOT SYNOPSIS. (1) Within fifteen (15) days after receiving a petition, the secretary of the district shall formulate a ballot synopsis of not more than two hundred (200) words. (2) The synopsis shall set forth the name of the person seeking to be recalled and if any charges have been filed in the petition, a concise statement of the elements of the charge. Upon completion of the ballot synopsis, the secretary shall certify and transmit the exact language of the ballot synopsis to the person filing the petition and the director subject to recall. The secretary shall additionally certify and transmit the charges, if any, and the ballot synopsis to the magistrate court of the county in which the director subject to recall resides and shall petition the magistrate court to approve the synopsis and to determine the sufficiency of the charges, if any.  History: [43-216, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 851.]
ID Code § 43-217 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-217 - DETERMINATION BY MAGISTRATE COURT — CORRECTION OF BALLOT SYNOPSIS.

43-217. DETERMINATION BY MAGISTRATE COURT — CORRECTION OF BALLOT SYNOPSIS. Within fifteen (15) days after receiving the petition, the magistrate court shall have conducted a hearing on and shall have determined, without cost to any party the adequacy of the ballot synopsis. If any charges have been included in the petition and ballot synopsis, the magistrate court shall dismiss those charges that are frivolous and designed to harass the director. The clerk of the magistrate court shall notify the person subject to recall and the person demanding recall of the hearing date. Both persons may appear with counsel. The court may hear arguments as to the adequacy of the ballot synopsis and if any charges have been included in the petition and ballot synopsis, the sufficiency of the charges. The court shall not consider the truth of the charges if any have been included, but only their sufficiency. Any decision regarding the ballot synopsis by the magistrate court is final. The court shall certify and transmit the ballot synopsis to the director subject to recall, the person demanding the recall, and the secretary of the irrigation district.  History: [43-217, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 851.]
ID Code § 43-218 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-218 - FILING SUPPORTING SIGNATURES — TIME LIMITATIONS.

43-218. FILING SUPPORTING SIGNATURES — TIME LIMITATIONS. (1) The sponsors of a recall demanded of any director of an irrigation district shall stop circulation and file all petitions with the appropriate irrigation district secretary not less than six (6) months before the next regular election in which any director is subject to reelection. (2) The sponsors of a recall demanded of any director shall have a maximum of thirty (30) days in which to obtain and file supporting signatures after the approval of a ballot synopsis by the magistrate court.  History: [43-218, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 851.]
ID Code § 43-219 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-219 - PETITION — FORM.

43-219. PETITION — FORM. Recall petitions shall be printed on single sheets of paper of good writing quality including, but not limited to, newsprint not less than eight and one-half (81/2) inches in width and not less than fourteen (14) inches in length. No petition may be circulated or signed prior to the approval of a ballot synopsis by the magistrate court. Such petitions shall be substantially in the following form: WARNING Every person who signs this petition with any other than his true name, or who knowingly (1) signs more than one (1) of these petitions, (2) signs this petition when he is not a legal voter, or (3) makes herein any false statement, may be fined, or imprisoned, or both. Petition for the recall of (here insert the name of the person whose recall is petitioned for) to the (here insert the name and title of the secretary of the irrigation district with whom the charge is filed). We, the undersigned citizens and legal voters of (the irrigation district’s official name), respectfully direct that a special election be called to determine whether or not (here insert the name of the person) be recalled and discharged from his office; and each of us for himself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a legal voter of the state of Idaho in (the irrigation district’s official name) and county written after my name, and my residence address is correctly stated, and to my knowledge, have signed this petition only once. Each and every signature sheet of each petition containing signatures shall be verified on the face thereof in substantially the following form by the person who circulated said sheet of the petition, by his or her affidavit thereon, as a part thereof: State of Idaho ) ) ss. County of ) I, ……………….., swear, under penalty of perjury, that every person who signed this sheet of the foregoing petition signed his or her name thereto in my presence. I believe that each has stated his or her name and the accompanying required information on the signature sheet correctly, and that the person was eligible to sign this petition.             Subscribed and sworn to before me this ….day of …….., …..  (Notary Seal)            History: [43-219, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 852; am. 2007, ch. 90, sec. 23, p. 260.]
ID Code § 43-220 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-220 - PETITION — SIZE.

43-220. PETITION — SIZE. Each recall petition at the time of circulating, signing and filing with the secretary of the irrigation district with whom it is to be filed, shall consist of not more than five (5) sheets with numbered lines for not more than twenty (20) signatures on each sheet, with the prescribed warning, title and form of petition on each sheet, and a full, true and correct copy of the original statement of the charges against the director referred to therein, printed on sheets of paper of like size and quality as the petition, firmly fastened together.  History: [43-220, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 852.]
ID Code § 43-221 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-221 - NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED.

43-221. NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED. When the person, demanding the recall of a director has secured sufficient signatures upon the recall petition he may submit the same to the secretary of the irrigation district for filing in his office. The number of signatures required shall be equal to twenty percent (20%) of the total number of eligible voters residing in the district as compiled by the secretary.  History: [43-221, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 853.]
ID Code § 43-222 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-222 - CANVASSING PETITION FOR SUFFICIENCY OF SIGNATURES — NOTICE.

43-222. CANVASSING PETITION FOR SUFFICIENCY OF SIGNATURES — NOTICE. Upon the filing of a recall petition in his office, the secretary of the irrigation district with whom the charge was filed shall stamp on each petition the date of filing, and shall notify the person filing them and the director whose recall is demanded of the date when the petitions will be canvassed, which date shall be not less than five (5) nor more than ten (10) days from the date of its filing.  History: [43-222, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 853.]