- (1) Except as provided in subsections (3)(b) and (5), the commissioners shall appoint a board of directors for the local water quality district.
- (2) The board of directors consists of not less than five members, including one county commissioner or member of the governing body of a city-county consolidated government, one member from the governing body of each incorporated city or town that is included in the district, one member of the county or city-county board of health, and if the district includes a substantial amount of land that is within a conservation district or districts, one conservation district supervisor.
(3) The remaining members of the board of directors are selected from interested persons, as follows:
- (a) from persons whose residences or businesses are distributed equally throughout the district if a county is the only unit of local government participating in the district; or
- (b) through mutual agreement by all governing bodies if a county and one or more incorporated cities and towns are participating in the district.
- (4) Terms of members of the board of directors are staggered and, after the initial terms, are for 3 years.
- (5) In counties that have a full-time city-county health department, the city-county board of health, created as authorized by 50-2-106, may be designated as the board of directors for the local water quality district. If the city-county board of health is designated as the board of directors and if the local water quality district includes a substantial amount of land that is within a conservation district or districts, the board of directors must also include one member who is a conservation district supervisor.
History: En. Sec. 12, Ch. 357, L. 1991.