§ 30-244. Board; election; organization; terms of office; quorum; report and minutes.

(1)

The board of the district shall be the governing body of the district and shall exercise the powers granted to the district under this act [article] and under Chapter 298, F.S. The board shall consist of five (5) members, and except as otherwise provided herein each member shall hold office for a term of four (4) years and until his successor shall be chosen and shall qualify. A majority of the members of the board shall be residents of Broward County, and all members shall be residents of Florida. All members of the board shall be landowners within the district.

(2)

The persons who are members of the board of supervisors of the Dixie Drainage District serving on or elected prior to January 1, 1982, shall be members of the board of the Plantation Acres Improvement District until December 1982 or until their respective terms expire, whichever is later.

(3)

In the month of December of each even-numbered year commencing December 1982, there shall be held a meeting of the landowners of the district at the office of the district in Broward County, Florida, for the purpose of electing three (3) supervisors for said district. Elections shall be conducted such that two (2) members shall be elected to four-year terms and one (1) member to a two-year term in accordance with general law. Further, there shall be an election as set forth herein in the month of December 1983 for the purpose of electing a supervisor to a one-year term. Notice of said landowners meeting shall be published once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper in Broward County which is in general circulation within the district, the last of said publication to be not less than fourteen (14) days nor more than twenty-eight (28) days before the date of the election. The landowners when assembled at such meeting shall organize by electing a chairman who shall conduct the meeting. At such meeting each landowner shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote per acre of land owned by him and located within the district, for each person to be elected. A landowner may vote in person or by proxy in writing. Fractions of an acre shall be treated as one (1) acre, entitling the landowner to one (1) vote with respect thereto.

(4)

Each supervisor, before entering upon his official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath of office as prescribed in § 298.13, F.S.

(5)

All supervisors shall hold office for the terms for which they are elected or appointed and until their successor shall be chosen and qualify. In case of a vacancy in the office of any supervisor, the remaining supervisor or supervisors (even though less than a quorum) may fill such vacancy by appointment of a new supervisor or supervisors for the unexpired term of the supervisor who vacated his office.

(6)

As soon as practicable after each election, the board shall organize by choosing one (1) supervisor to be president of the board and by appointing a recording secretary, who need not be a member of the board.

(7)

A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum.

(8)

The board shall keep a permanent record book entitled "Record of Proceedings of Plantation Acres Improvement District," in which shall be recorded minutes of all meetings, resolutions, proceedings, certificates, bonds given by all employees, and any and all corporate acts, which book shall at reasonable times be opened to the inspection of any landowner, taxpayer, resident, or bondholder of the district, and such other persons as the board may determine to have a proper interest in the proceedings of the board. Such record book shall be kept at any office or other regular place of business maintained by the board in Broward County.

(9)

Whenever any election shall be authorized or required by this act [article] to be held by the landowners at any particular or stated time or day, and if for any reasons such election is not held at such time or on such day, then in such event the power or duty to hold such election shall not cease or lapse, but such election shall be held thereafter when practicable, and in accordance with the procedures provided by this act [article].

(Sp. Acts, Ch. 82-274, § 6)