§ 11-07-02 — When districts must be changed - Additional meeting - Public hearing - Notice

Notice.
Each redistricting board shall, within three months after official publication of each federal
decennial census, meet at the call of the chairman to organize as provided in this chapter and to
consider redistricting, unless the county commissioners are currently elected at large pursuant
to subsection 3 of section 11-07-03 and neither a resolution of the board of county
commissioners nor a citizen petition pursuant to this section has called for such meeting. A
redistricting board may additionally meet during a census interim if a resolution calling for a
meeting is passed by the board of county commissioners or a petition calling for a meeting
signed by ten percent of the qualified electors of the county as determined by the number of
votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial election is presented to the board of county
commissioners. If any one district in the county varies more than ten percent from the average
population per commissioner in such county determined by dividing the total population of the
county at the last federal decennial census by the number of commissioners' districts in such
county, or if county commissioners are elected at large, the redistricting board shall redistrict the
county, as provided in this chapter. If redistricting of a county is required, the chairman of the
redistricting board shall, not less than thirty days before the filing of the plan pursuant to section
11-07-03, call a meeting for the purpose of conducting a public hearing to review alternative
plans for such redistricting. Notice of such meeting shall be published or caused to be published
by the chairman in the official county newspaper at least ten days prior to the date of such
hearing.