KRS 267.510: Board for separate district -- Election -- Term -- Vacancies.

(1) As soon as practicable after the judgment establishing a separate drainage district

becomes final, the county judge/executive shall, with the advice and assistance of

the engineer, enter an order dividing the district into three (3) precincts, as near

equal in area of lands reported as benefited as is practicable, and calling a meeting

of the landowners affected, to be had at some public place in the county in which

the proceeding is pending, at a day and hour fixed in the order. The date for the

meeting shall be not less than twenty (20) days from the entry of the order calling it.

The county clerk shall give notice of the meeting by publication pursuant to KRS

Chapter 424, and by posting not less than five (5) posters in different public places

in the dist rict at least fifteen (15) days before the date set. The landowners, when

assembled, shall organize by the election of a chairman and secretary of the

meeting, who shall conduct the election. At this election each acre of land, as near

as may be arrived at by estimate or from the evidence heard before the county

judge/executive on the cross -petition, shall represent one (1) share, and each owner

shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each share estimated to be owned by him in the

district. The name of at least one (1) person shall be put in nomination for the office

of district commissioner from each of the three (3) precincts. The one (1) person

from each of the three (3) precincts receiving the highest number of votes shall be

declared elected as district c ommissioner. The district commissioner shall

immediately by lot determine the terms of their office, which shall be, respectively,

one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, and shall serve until their successors are elected

and qualified.

(2) Each year after t he election of the first district board, at such time and place in the

district as the district board designates, and after notice, as above provided, the

landowners in the district shall meet and elect one (1) district commissioner, who

shall be an owner of land in the same precinct as that in which the district

commissioner whose term is about to expire owns land, and who shall hold office

for three (3) years and until his successor is elected and qualified. In case of a

vacancy in any office of district commissioner, the remaining district

commissioners may fill the vacancy, with some person having the precinct

qualification, until the next annual election, when a successor shall be elected for

the unexpired term. A district commissioner whose term is expiring shall be eligible

for reelection.