38-1006 APPOINTMENT OF STUMPAGE COMMISSIONERS -- ORGANIZATION OF BOARD. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 38

FORESTRY, FOREST PRODUCTS AND STUMPAGE DISTRICTS

CHAPTER 10

STUMPAGE DISTRICTS

38-1006. Appointment of stumpage commissioners -- Organization of board. The county commissioners within ten (10) days thereafter shall appoint three (3) stumpage commissioners. The commissioners shall be appointed from among those owning land in the proposed district. The board of stumpage commissioners appointed as aforesaid shall be entitled to enter upon the duties of their office upon qualifying as county officers are required to qualify, and upon each stumpage commissioner giving a bond to the state of Idaho, for the benefit of said stumpage district, for the faithful performance of his duties as such commissioner, in the penal sum of $1,000 with one (1) or more sureties, to be approved by the said board of county commissioners. The stumpage commissioners shall take the oath of office and file their bonds within fifteen (15) days after they are appointed, and they shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Each stumpage commissioner thereafter who may be appointed shall enter into a like bond of like effect upon entering upon his duties, which bond shall be approved by the county commissioners. The bonds of the stumpage commissioners shall be filed and kept in the county recorder’s office. Immediately after their appointment and their bonds have been filed and approved, the stumpage commissioners shall organize themselves into a board, and they shall by lot determine the terms of their office, which shall be one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, respectively. Annually thereafter the county commissioners of the county said district is located in shall appoint one (1) stumpage commissioner whose term of office shall be three (3) years.