Section 321.130

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS

Chapter 321

Effective - 28 Aug 2007, 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.  The person shall also be a resident of such fire protection district.  In the event the person is no longer a resident of the district, the person's office shall be vacated, and the vacancy shall be filled as provided in section 321.200.  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, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)