When twenty-five or more qualified electors residing within a proposed watershed conservation district, or, if less than fifty qualified electors are involved, a majority of the qualified electors, desire to form a watershed conservation district, they shall file a petition with the board of commissioners of the soil and water conservation district in which the proposed watershed conservation district is situated, asking that a watershed conservation district be organized to function in the area described in the petition. The petition must:
(1) set forth the proposed name of the watershed conservation district;
(2) state that there is need in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare for a watershed conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition;
(3) include a map of the proposed watershed conservation district;
(4) state the approximate number of acres in the proposed watershed conservation district;
(5) state the authority for taxes to be levied each fiscal year for the purposes of the watershed conservation district;
(6) include a request that the area described in the petition be established as a watershed conservation district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 63-174; 1967 (55) 1158; 1992 Act No. 408, Section 1.
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