Section 321.130

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS

Chapter 321

Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 4 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  321.130.  Directors, qualifications — candidate filing fee, oath. — 1. A person, to be qualified to serve as a director, shall be a voter of the district at least one year before the election or appointment and be over the age of twenty-five years; except as provided in subsections 2 and 3 of this section. Nominations and declarations of candidacy shall be filed at the headquarters of the fire protection district by paying a ten dollar filing fee and filing a statement under oath that such person possesses the required qualifications.

  2. In any fire protection district located in more than one county one of which is a first class county without a charter form of government having a population of more than one hundred ninety-eight thousand and not adjoining any other first class county or located wholly within a first class county as described herein, a resident shall have been a resident of the district for more than one year to be qualified to serve as a director.

  3. In any fire protection district located in a county of the third or fourth classification, a person to be qualified to serve as a director shall be over the age of twenty-five years and shall be a voter of the district for more than one year before the election or appointment, except that for the first board of directors in such district, a person need only be a voter of the district for one year before the election or appointment.

  4. A person desiring to become a candidate for the first board of directors of the proposed district shall pay the sum of five dollars as a filing fee to the treasurer of the county and shall file with the election authority a statement under oath that such person possesses all of the qualifications set out in this chapter for a director of a fire protection district. Thereafter, such candidate shall have the candidate's name placed on the ballot as a candidate for director.

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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 13, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1981 S.B. 166, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1395 & 1448, A.L. 1993 H.B. 177 merged with S.B. 31 merged with S.B. 346, A.L. 1995 H.B. 484, et al., A.L. 2002 S.B. 1107, A.L. 2005 S.B. 210)