Elections to determine whether a rural road improvement district will be organized may be conducted at a mass meeting or convention of the owners of real property in and residents of the district, or if there are no residents of the district, the owners of real property in the district, who are qualified to vote. The chair of the board of county commissioners or his or her designee shall preside at the meeting and the voting shall be by secret ballot. The presiding officer shall have the authority to appoint a secretary of the meeting and the commissioner and secretary shall certify results of the election to the board of county commissioners who shall meet on the second Monday next following the election and proceed to determine the percentage of votes cast. If, upon such determination, at least three-fifths (3/5) of all the votes cast are "Rural Road Improvement District - Yes", the board shall, by order declare such territory duly organized as a rural road improvement district under the name designated. The order shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk and from that date the district shall be complete.
Added by Laws 1994, c. 291, § 3, emerg. eff. June 6, 1994. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 218, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.
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