Canvass of votes - order of dissolution.

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(1) The board of directors, upon the day specified in the notice of election as the day for the canvassing of the vote of such election, shall proceed to canvass the votes cast at said election, and if it appears from such canvass that a majority of the ballots cast at said election were "For dissolution", then the board of directors shall forthwith make and enter in their records an order declaring said district to be duly dissolved and disorganized, which order shall contain a complete copy of said petition for dissolution, including the signatures thereto attached and a duly authenticated copy of the published notice of such election, together with copies of the publisher's affidavit of publication. The order shall state that an election was called and set for the .............. day of .............., A. D., ...., that on said day the election was held and that so many votes, stating the number, were cast for dissolution and so many votes were cast against dissolution.

  1. Said board of directors shall cause a copy of said order, duly certified by the president and attested by the secretary of the board of directors under the seal of the district, to be filed for record in the office of the county clerk and recorder of each county within which any portion of such district extends, and it is the duty of said county clerk and recorders to forthwith file and record said certified copies, whereupon said district shall be dissolved and shall cease to exist.

  2. If it appears upon the canvass of said vote so cast at the election that a majority of thevotes were against dissolution, then the board of directors shall declare the proposition lost and shall thereupon enter an order to that effect in the records of the district but shall not file such order with the county clerk and recorders of the counties into which such district extends.

Source: L. 11: p. 331, § 80. C.L. § 2197. CSA: C. 57, § 117. CRS 53: § 47-10-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 47-10-2.


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