Effective – 15 Jun 1979 321.010. Definitions — election procedure. — 1. A “fire protection district” is a political subdivision which is organized and empowered to supply protection by any available means to persons and property against injuries and damage from fire and from hazards which do or may cause fire, and which is also […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2013 321.015. District director not to hold other lucrative employment — exemptions certain counties and employment — lucrative office or employment, defined. — 1. No person holding any lucrative office or employment under this state, or any political subdivision thereof as defined in section 70.120, shall hold the office of fire […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories 321.017. Employee of fire protection district or ambulance district not to be member of board, exception — former board members ineligible for employment by the board for twelve months. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 321.015, no employee of any fire protection district or ambulance district shall […]
Effective – 15 Jun 1979 321.020. Circuit court may establish districts. — The circuit court sitting in and for any county of this state, containing all or part of a proposed district, may, as provided in this chapter, establish fire protection districts. ——– (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 3, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1978 321.030. Petition required for organization of fire district — who to sign. — The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court vested with jurisdiction in any county in which all or part of the real property […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.040. Contents of petition. — The petition shall set forth: (1) The name of the proposed district consisting of a chosen name preceding the words “fire protection district”; (2) An estimate of the number of inhabitants and of the assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property of the district, and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.050. Amendment of petition — similar petitions or duplicates. — No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the court may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.060. Filing fee. — There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to cover the payment of court costs. ——– (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 7)
Effective – 28 Aug 1978 321.070. Publication of notice of hearing — fixing time and place. — Immediately after the filing of such petition or any amended petition changing the boundaries, the court wherein such petition is filed or the judge thereof in vacation shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1969 321.080. Jurisdiction of proceedings — judge owning property not disqualified. — The circuit court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of a district has been filed shall thereafter for all purposes of this chapter, except as otherwise provided, maintain and have original and exclusive […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1978 321.090. Protesting petition may be filed — who to sign — contents. — Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the circuit clerk, wherein the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1969 321.100. Hearing — adjudication — corporate powers. — Upon the hearing if it shall appear that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and that the allegations of the petition are true and that no protesting petition […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1969 321.110. Dismissal of proceedings — costs — review. — Upon the hearing if the court finds that the petition has not been signed, filed and presented pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or that the material facts are not as set forth in the petition filed, or that sufficient […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2011, 2 histories 321.120. Election before decree becomes conclusive — decree to determine number of directors — ballot form — successor directors, terms — may increase number of directors, exception — ballot, form — terms. — 1. The decree of incorporation shall not become final and conclusive until it has been […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2016, 3 histories 321.130. Directors, qualifications — candidate filing fee, oath. — A person, to be qualified to serve as a director, shall be a resident and voter of the district for at least one year before the election or appointment and be over the age of twenty-four years. In the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.140. Final order establishing district deemed conclusive — quo warranto — collateral attack. — If a final order be entered establishing the district, such order shall be deemed final and conclusive, and no appeal or writ of error shall lie therefrom, and the entry of such order shall finally and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1978 321.150. Filing of copies of findings and decrees incorporating district. — Within thirty days after the final order of the circuit court of the county in which the district has been declared a public corporation, the circuit clerk of that court shall transmit to the county clerk and to the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.160. Board members to file oaths of office — surety bonds. — Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall thereafter qualify within fifteen days by filing with the circuit clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2007 321.162. Educational training required for board of directors. — 1. All members of the board of directors of a fire protection district first elected on or after January 1, 2008, shall attend and complete an educational seminar or conference or other suitable training on the role and duties of a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1947 321.170. Board to select officers — seal — records. — After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the […]
