The director to represent the municipality or municipalities, and the director-at-large for the period from October, 1955, to October, 1957, shall be selected at the September, 1955, meeting by the board of directors of such conservancy district as the same exists prior to such election. Such members shall be elected from the membership of the previously existing board if there be qualified members of such board willing to serve for such additional two years. If there be no members of the existing board willing to serve for such additional period of two years or if there be only one, then said existing board may select one or both of such directors from qualified electors of the district for such position or positions as a director as no member of the existing board shall be willing to accept.
In the election to be held in October, 1957, a director to represent the municipal voting precinct shall be elected from the qualified electors of the municipality and a director-at-large shall be elected from the qualified electors of the district.
Every resident, otherwise qualified, owning real estate of any character within the district, shall have one vote for director-at-large. Each elector resident of the municipal voting precinct shall have one vote for municipal director. The right of a voter to vote for municipal director shall not be affected by such elector voting in any other election precinct in which such elector may own Class "A" land.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-32-28, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 281, § 4.