§ 260C.13 — Director districts

Iowa § 260C.13

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 260C: COMMUNITY COLLEGES

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1. The board of a merged area may change the number of directors on the board and
shall make corresponding changes in the boundaries of director districts. Changes shall be
completed not later than August 1 of the year of the regular school election. As soon as
possible after adoption of the boundary changes, notice of changes in the director district
boundaries shall be submitted by the merged area to the county commissioner of elections in
all counties included in whole or in part in the merged area.
2. The board of the merged area shall redraw boundary lines of director districts in the
merged area after each federal decennial census.
3. Boundarylinesofdirectordistrictsshallbedrawnaccordingtothefollowingstandards:
a. All boundaries shall follow precinct boundaries or school director district boundaries
unless a merged area director district boundary follows the boundary of a school district
which divides one or more election precincts.
b. To the extent possible in order to comply with paragraph “a”, all districts shall be as
nearly equal as practicable to the ideal population for the districts as determined by dividing
the number of districts to be established into the population of the merged area.
c. All districts shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact as practicable.
d. Consideration shall not be given to the addresses of incumbent officeholders, political
affiliations of registered voters, previous election results, or demographic information other
thanpopulationheadcounts,exceptasrequiredbytheConstitutionandthelawsoftheUnited
States.
e. A city shall not be divided into two or more director districts unless the population of
thatportionofthecitythatiswithinthemergedareaisgreaterthantheidealsizeofadirector
district. Cities shall be divided into the smallest number of director districts possible.
4. If more than one incumbent officeholder resides in a district redrawn during
reprecincting, their terms of office expire after the next regular school election.

Legislative History

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §280A.23(2); C79, §280A.28, 280A.30; C81, §280A.28, 280A.29; 82 Acts, ch 1136, §9]