Arizona SB 1023: sanitary districts; directors; payment

Bill Text

SB1023 - 562R - S Ver 

 Senate Engrossed

 sanitary districts; 
 directors; payment

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-sixth Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2024

 SENATE BILL 1023

An Act

amending 
section 48-2010, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to sanitary 
districts.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 48-2010, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE48-2010. Board of directors; qualifications; term; appointment; election; 
conversion; reorganization; compensation; expenses

A. A sanitary district having an area of one hundred 
sixty acres or more shall be governed by a board of directors with not less 
than three members.� Members of the board of directors shall be qualified 
electors of the district. Immediately after the first regular 
election held subsequent to the enactment of this section by a sanitary 
district organized and existing prior to 
before such enactment, the directors shall meet and divide themselves by 
lot into two classes as nearly equal in number as possible.� Directors of the 
first class shall serve for a term of four years, and directors of the second 
class for a term of two years, and until the directors' successors are elected 
and qualified. Thereafter at each regular election one director for 
each expired term shall be elected, and shall hold office for a term of four 
years, and until the director's successor is elected and 
qualified. The dates of elections and of expiration of terms of the 
initial directors shall be specified in the petition for establishment of the 
district.� Except for an election to reorganize a sanitary district, candidates 
for directors shall file nominating petitions with the board of supervisors as 
prescribed by title 16, chapter 3.� If only one person files or no person files 
a nominating petition for an election to fill a district office, the board of 
supervisors may cancel the election for the position and appoint the person who 
filed the nominating petition to fill the position. If no person 
files a nominating petition for an election to fill a district office, the 
board of supervisors may cancel the election for that office and that office is 
deemed vacant and shall be filled as otherwise provided by law.� A person who 
is appointed pursuant to this section is fully vested with the powers and 
duties of the office as if elected to that office.

B. A director who resides in an area which that is deleted from the sanitary district during the 
director's term of office shall continue to serve until the next regular 
election, and until the director's successor is elected and 
qualified. If the director's term does not expire at that time, a 
new qualified director shall be elected to serve out the unexpired portion.

C. A sanitary district having an area of less than 
one hundred sixty acres shall be governed by the board of supervisors of the 
county in which the district is located, and the board of supervisors shall be 
the board of directors of the district. On receipt of a petition 
that contains the signatures of twenty-five per cent percent or more of the qualified electors residing in the 
district that are verified by the county recorder and that requests that the 
district be converted and administered by its own board of directors, the board 
of supervisors shall call an election on the conversion of the sanitary 
district. The election may be held on any consolidated election date 
as prescribed in section 16-204.� The sanitary district shall reimburse 
the county for the expenses of the sanitary district election.� The petition 
for the conversion of the district shall specify either three or five as the 
number of directors for the converted sanitary district. The board 
of supervisors shall give notice of the election by posting copies of the order 
of election in three public places within the district not less than twenty 
days prior to before the date of the 
election and if a newspaper is published within the county having a general 
circulation within the district, the order shall be published in the newspaper 
not less than once a week during each of the three calendar weeks preceding the 
calendar week of the election. The ballot for the election shall 
state "convert from a sanitary district administered by the county board 
of supervisors to a sanitary district administered by a local board of 
directors consisting of (insert three members or five members, as appropriate) - 
yes", "convert from a sanitary district administered by the county 
board of supervisors to a sanitary district administered by a local board of 
directors consisting of (insert three or five members, as appropriate) - 
no". The ballot shall also allow each elector to indicate the 
elector's choice for board members in the event of 
conversion. Within twenty days after the election, the board of 
supervisors shall meet and canv