(1) Immediately after the filing of such petition, the court wherein the petition is filed, by order, shall fix a place and time, not less than sixty-three days nor more than ninety-one days after the petition is filed, for hearing thereon, and the clerk of said court shall cause notice by publication, which may be substantially the same as provided in section 37-8-101, to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The clerk of the court shall also forthwith cause a copy of said notice to be sent by United States first-class mail or by electronic service using the e-filing system of the judicial department to the board of county commissioners of each of the counties having territory within the proposed subdistrict and to the board of directors of the district if the petition is filed by the landowners.
The district court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of asubdistrict has been filed shall thereafter, for all purposes of this article, except as otherwise provided in this article, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction, coextensive with the boundaries of said subdistrict, of lands and other property proposed to be included in said subdistrict or affected by said subdistrict, without regard to the usual limits of its jurisdiction.
No judge of such court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to performany duty imposed by this article by reason of ownership of property within any subdistrict or proposed subdistrict or by reason of ownership of any property that may be benefited, taxed, or assessed therein.
Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1375, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2017: (1) amended, (HB 17-1142), ch. 66, p. 209, § 4, effective September 1.