31-1409. RESIDENCE QUALIFICATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS — TERM OF OFFICE — VACANCIES. (1) At the meeting of the board of county commissioners at which the fire protection district is declared organized, as provided by section 31-1407, Idaho Code, the county commissioners shall divide the fire protection district into three (3) subdivisions, as nearly equal in population, area and mileage as practicable, to be known as fire protection commissioners subdistricts one, two and three. Not more than one (1) of the fire protection district commissioners shall be a resident of the same fire protection subdistrict, except that any commissioner appointed by the board of county commissioners under section 31-1408, Idaho Code, shall not be disqualified from the completion of the initial term for which the commissioner was appointed because of the subdistrict in which the commissioner resides. The first commissioners appointed by the board of county commissioners shall serve until the next fire protection district election, at which time their successors shall be elected. The term of office for fire protection commissioners shall commence on the second Monday of January succeeding each general election. Commissioners appointed or elected must be electors residing within the fire protection district for at least one (1) year immediately preceding their appointment or election.
(2) Any fire protection commissioner vacancy occurring, other than by the expiration of the term of office, shall be filled by the fire protection board. If a duly elected or appointed fire protection commissioner resigns, withdraws, becomes disqualified, refuses or, without first providing signed written notice of a temporary vacancy, becomes otherwise unable to perform the duties of office for longer than ninety (90) days, the board, on satisfactory proof of the vacancy, shall declare the office vacant. The board shall fill any vacancies within sixty (60) days of learning of the vacancy. When a vacancy occurs, the board shall direct the secretary to cause a notice of the vacancy to be published in at least one (1) issue of a newspaper of general circulation within the district. The notice shall include the date and time of the meeting when the board will vote to fill the vacancy, and the deadline for qualified elector residents interested in being appointed to the position to submit a written request for appointment to the board. Should the remaining members of the board fail to agree on an individual to fill the vacancy, it shall select the individual by placing the names of all interested persons who received the highest and equal number of votes in a container. The fire commissioner with the most continuous length of service shall draw one (1) name from the container. The person whose name is drawn shall then be appointed to fill the vacancy.
(3) If more than fifty percent (50%) of the elected official seats on a fire protection district board of commissioners are vacant, any remaining member of the fire protection district board of commissioners, or any elector of the fire protection district, may petition the board of county commissioners of the county or counties in which the subdistrict vacancies are situated to make such appointments as are necessary to fill the vacancies on the fire protection district board of commissioners. The vacancies shall be filled by the board or boards of county commissioners within sixty (60) days of receiving a written petition. Any fire commissioner so appointed shall serve out the remainder of the term for the commissioner last serving in the vacant seat to be filled and shall be a resident of the same fire protection commissioners subdistrict.
History:
[31-1409, added 1943, ch. 161, sec. 9, p. 324; am. 1986, ch. 137, sec. 7, p. 370; am. 1996, ch. 360, sec. 2, p. 1213; am. 2006, ch. 318, sec. 6, p. 993; am. 2016, ch. 89, sec. 2, p. 276; am. 2017, ch. 128, sec. 4, p. 300; am. 2018, ch. 168, sec. 1, p. 342.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
Chapter 14 - FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
Section 31-1401 - PURPOSE AND POLICY OF LAW — SHORT TITLE.
Section 31-1402 - CREATION AND ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT.
Section 31-1404 - NOTICE OF HEARING.
Section 31-1405 - NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Section 31-1406 - ELECTION — QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS — CANVASS.
Section 31-1407 - CANVASS BY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — VALIDITY OF ORGANIZATION.
Section 31-1408 - FIRE PROTECTION BOARD — APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS — OATH.
Section 31-1409 - RESIDENCE QUALIFICATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS — TERM OF OFFICE — VACANCIES.
Section 31-1410A - DECISION TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE BOARD.
Section 31-1410B - DECISION TO DECREASE THE SIZE OF THE BOARD.
Section 31-1412 - ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY IN ADJOINING COUNTY.
Section 31-1413 - CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS — HEARING — PROTEST — ELECTION.
Section 31-1414 - ELECTION FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS.
Section 31-1415 - ORGANIZATION OF BOARD — MEETINGS — OFFICERS — OFFICIAL BONDS.
Section 31-1417 - CORPORATE POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF FIRE PROTECTION COMMISSIONERS.
Section 31-1419 - FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT HAS LEGAL TITLE TO PROPERTY.
Section 31-1420 - PROCEDURE FOR SALE, CONVEYANCE AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY.
Section 31-1421 - COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS — EXPENSES — LIABILITY.
Section 31-1422 - BUDGET AND HEARING — NOTICE OF HEARING — PUBLIC INSPECTION.
Section 31-1423 - LEVY — RECOMMENDED LEVY — ELECTION.
Section 31-1424 - DUTIES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Section 31-1426 - HANDLING OF DISTRICT FUNDS.
Section 31-1427 - INDEBTEDNESS PROHIBITED — EXCEPTIONS.
Section 31-1428 - CARRY OVER — FUND BALANCE.
Section 31-1429 - INCLUSION, ANNEXATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF AREA IN CITIES.
Section 31-1432 - CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.
Section 31-1433 - CONTINUATION OF EXISTING DISTRICTS — VALIDATING ACTS OF OFFICERS.
Section 31-1434 - ANY DISSOLUTION.
Section 31-1435 - SEPARABILITY.
Section 31-1436 - NONLIABILITY OF AGENCY FOR DELAY IN REPORT OF FIRE — EXCEPTION.
Section 31-1437 - LIABILITY FOR INDEBTEDNESS OF FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS AFTER BOUNDARY CHANGES.