Section 34A-5-14.1 - Districts to be governed by board of trustees--Election--Number of members. - South Dakota Statutes

34A-5-14.1. Districts to be governed by board of trustees--Election--Number of members. Each sanitary district shall be governed by a board of trustees elected at large as provided in this chapter. To be eligible for office, each trustee shall reside in the district. The board of trustees shall consist of an odd number of members and shall have at least three but not more than eleven members. A sanitary district that provides or is proposed to provide sewer or water facility connections to more than one thousand five hundred households, farms, businesses, or other entities shall have a board of trustees of at least five but not more than eleven members. A sanitary district that provides or is proposed to provide at least one thousand but no more than one thousand five hundred such connections shall have a board of trustees of at least five but not more than nine members. A sanitary district that provides or is proposed to provide at least five hundred but not more than one thousand such connections shall have a board of trustees of at least three but not more than seven members. A sanitary district that provides or is proposed to provide less than five hundred such connections shall have a board of trustees of at least three but not more than five members. The number of trustees for a newly incorporated or consolidated sanitary district shall be specified in the order of incorporation issued under § 34A-5-7 or the consolidation resolution issued under § 34A-5-46.

Source: SL 1993, ch 258, § 5.