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375A.09 HOW TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF COUNTY BOARD MEMBERS.
    Subdivision 1. This chapter controls; benchmark; abandonment. Notwithstanding any
other provision of law specifying the number of members of the board of county commissioners
and except as otherwise provided in sections 375A.01 to 375A.13, any county may alter the
number of members on the board of county commissioners in accordance with the provisions
of this section. Until the adoption of a modification of the number of the members of the board
of county commissioners, each county shall elect the number of county commissioners by the
method in effect for that county on July 1, 1973. Any of the modifications may be adopted or
abandoned by a county by following the procedures set forth in sections 375A.01 to 375A.13.
    Subd. 2. 3, 5, 7, or 9 members. Any county may provide that the board of county
commissioners shall consist of three, five, seven or nine members.
    Subd. 3. Must be district resident. Every county commissioner shall be a resident of the
county and shall be a resident of the district from which nominated and elected.
    Subd. 4. Apportionment, redistricting, staggering, timing. The county shall be divided
into the number of districts from which commissioners are nominated and elected and the
population of the county shall be apportioned to the several districts so that each commissioner
represents the same number of persons as nearly as may be possible. When the number of
commissioners has been changed, the county board shall proceed to redistrict the county
accordingly and it shall follow as nearly as possible the times and procedures specified in section
375.025, including determining the two year and four year terms first assigned to districts in
order to provide as nearly as possible for an equal number of overlapping four year terms in the
future. The resolution redistricting the county shall be adopted not less than 30 days before
the first day candidates may file for the office of county commissioner. Commissioners to be
elected pursuant to the modification of the county board shall be elected at the general election
following the adoption of the modification.
History: 1973 c 542 s 9; 1976 c 239 s 113; 1986 c 444

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