Within 30 days after any drainage district has been organized under the provisions of the Drainage District Act, the county clerk of the county in which the petition was filed shall call a meeting of the owners of land situated in the district for the purpose of electing a board of supervisors with three or five supervisors as determined by the owners of land within the district. Notice of the meeting shall be given by publication in some newspaper published in each county in which lands of the district are situated, at least 10 days before the date of the meeting. The supervisors shall be owners of land in the district. The landowners, assembled at the place and time required by the notice, shall organize by the election of a chairperson and secretary of the meeting who shall conduct the election. Each owner is entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each acre of land owned by the owner in the district. The three or five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected as supervisors. They shall immediately by lot determine the terms of their office. If three supervisors are elected, the supervisors shall serve, respectively, one, two and three years. If five supervisors are elected, one supervisor shall serve one year, two supervisors shall serve two years, and two supervisors shall serve three years. The supervisors first elected shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. The majority of the acreage represented shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all landowners’ meetings; provided, however, that when in any year a district shall fail to have a quorum at its annual meeting called pursuant to ORS 547.110 then the quorum for the annual meeting for the succeeding year shall be at least 35 percent of the acreage represented. [Amended by 1959 c.379 §1; 2003 c.223 §1]
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