41-3-602. Commissioners; appointment; term; removal; filling of vacancies; hydrographers.
(a) The governor shall appoint a water commissioner for each water district, if needed, who shall be selected from persons recommended by the superintendent of the water division in which the water district is situated with the advice of the board of county commissioners of the county or counties, lying wholly or partly within the water district. The water commissioner shall be an employee of the state engineer. Each commissioner shall hold his office until his successor is appointed and shall have qualified, and the governor shall, by like selection and appointment, fill all vacancies which shall occur in the office of water commissioners, and may, at any time, remove any water commissioner as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
(b) The governor may appoint a water commissioner to more than one (1) district on recommendation of the division superintendent and the county commissioners of the interested county or counties.
(c) Also, where the legislature has appropriated state funds for payment of full time water commissioners, the governor may appoint water commissioners to be known as hydrographer water commissioners for one (1) or more water districts on recommendation of the state engineer and the superintendent of the water division in which any such district is located. The governor may remove any commissioner appointed under this subsection as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
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