42-713. Bond resolution; election; publication notice. (a) The board of directors of any irrigation district, created under the provisions hereof, which has previously complied with the conditions precedent thereto may adopt a resolution stating: (1) The amount of bonds proposed to be issued; (2) the rate or rates they shall bear; (3) the years of maturity; (4) the purpose for which they are proposed to be issued; (5) the total amount of existing bonded indebtedness, if any; and (6) a statement directing submission of said resolution to approval of electors in said district and the date and polling places for said election. Such bond elections shall be conducted and the returns thereof made and canvassed in same manner as for regular election of members of the board of directors as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 42-706 except as otherwise provided in this act.

(b) Upon adoption of such resolution by the board of directors providing for the issuance of bonds, the secretary of said board shall cause notice of said election to be given by posting notice thereof in at least three (3) conspicuous places in the district and by publishing said notice three times in a weekly newspaper published in the county where the registered office of said district is located. If no newspaper is published therein, publication in any newspaper of general circulation in the district shall be deemed sufficient. The date of the posting and the publication in the first issue of newspapers containing such notice shall be not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of such election. Said notice shall contain a full copy of the resolution, and the question to be submitted at the election shall be whether said resolution shall be approved. The ballot for such election shall be written or printed and shall state the question in substantially the following form:

Shall the resolution of __________ Irrigation District No. ______ providing for the issuance of its bonds in an amount not to exceed $______ for the purpose of __________, be approved?

(With all blanks filled in and completed.)

Yes __________ ☐

No  __________ ☐

History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 13; L. 1961, ch. 242, § 3; April 6.