Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

Each library district may be divided
into five (5) trustee zones with each zone having approximately the same
population. To the maximum extent possible, boundaries of trustees zones shall
follow the existing boundaries of the electoral precincts of the county. They
shall be revised, as necessary, to equalize population and to follow new
electoral precinct boundaries following the publication of the report of each
decennial census. In order for a library district to be divided into trustee
zones, the board of trustees shall pass a motion declaring the district to be
divided into trustee zones and providing a legal description of each trustee
zone. The board of trustees shall transmit the motion along with the legal
description of the trustee zones to the board or boards of county
commissioners in the county or counties where the library district is
contained and to the state library board. The board or boards of county
commissioners shall have forty-five (45) days from the receipt of the motion
and legal description to reject, by adoption of a motion, the establishment of
trustee zones proposed by formal motion of the board of trustees of the
library district. If the board or boards of county commissioners do not reject
the establishment of the trustee zones within the time limit specified, they
shall be deemed to be in full force and effect. If a library district is
contained in more than one (1) county, a motion of rejection adopted by one
(1) board of county commissioners shall be sufficient to keep the trustee zone
plan from going into effect. A board of county commissioners shall notify the
library board of trustees in writing if a proposal is rejected.
If a proposal for the establishment of trustee zones is rejected by a
board of county commissioners, the boundaries of the trustee zones, if any,
shall return to the dimensions they were before the rejection. Trustee zones
may be redefined and changed, but not more than once every two (2) years after
a new set of trustee zones are formally established and in full force and
effect.
At the next regular meeting of the board of trustees of the library
district following the creation of trustee zones, the public library district
board shall appoint from its membership or from other qualified electors
resident in each trustee zone, a person from that zone to serve as a trustee
until the next regularly scheduled trustee election from that zone. The
initial election of trustees for the trustee zones shall be for terms of one
(1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) years respectively, with each
zone being assigned an initial term length by a random drawing of the numbers
one (1) through five (5). Thereafter, a trustee from each zone shall be
elected once every five (5) years on a rotating basis with one (1) zone voting
each year. Only residents of the zone electing a trustee may vote. The elector
must be a resident of the same trustee zone as the candidate or candidates for
library district trustee for whom the elector offers to vote for at least
thirty (30) days preceding the election in which the elector desires to vote.

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