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ORGANIZATION OF COUNTYWIDE HIGHWAY DISTRICTS -- HIGHWAY DISTRICT
COMMISSIONERS -- APPOINTMENT -- TERMS -- ELECTION. (1) Countywide highway
districts may be organized under the laws applicable to highway districts and
for county highway districts, new highway districts, consolidated or enlarged
highway districts, and the number of highway commissioners to be elected shall
be three (3). The formation of new districts shall be effected by the
commissioners of the county so affected within sixty (60) days of the
reorganization election, and upon the determination that a county highway
system shall be reorganized as a countywide highway district, new highway
districts, consolidation, enlargement or other modification, the original
highway district commissioners shall, within seventy (70) days of the
election, be appointed by the governor. A new highway district shall be
divided by the commissioners into three (3) subdistricts as nearly equal in
mileage, market value for assessment purposes, and population as practicable
under the circumstances, for the purpose of determining each highway
commissioner's district, and each commissioner for a highway district shall
represent and be elected or appointed from the district in which he resides.
(2) Upon appointment, qualification and acceptance of duties as highway
commissioners, those originally appointed shall, by lot, determine two (2) of
the original appointed highway commissioners who shall serve for terms of
original appointment for two (2) years, or until the next regular election for
highway commissioners. The remaining highway commissioner shall serve for a
period of four (4) years, or until the next succeeding election for highway
commissioners. Thereafter, the highway commissioners elected shall be elected
for four (4) year terms as their terms expire, thus providing a continuation
in office of highway district commissioners, and providing for the staggered
election of the commissioners in subsequent elections.
(3) Laws applicable to the election of highway commissioners shall apply
to the conduct of highway district elections throughout the county, and the
election for highway commissioners shall be on a nonpartisan basis.
(4) Where a countywide highway district, new highway district, or
consolidated or enlarged district results from an election under this chapter,
it shall be the duty of the governor, in the appointment of the original
highway commissioners for the county, where there shall have been in existence
at the time of the creation of any highway districts within the limits of the
county to appoint whenever practicable, the existing highway commissioners as
they shall qualify by residence in the territorial limits of the districts of
the newly created highway district as a highway commissioner of the newly
created highway district system. County commissioners, city mayors and city
council members shall not be eligible to hold office as a highway district
commissioner.

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