7-33-2103. Hearing on petition -- decision. (1) The board shall proceed to hear the petition at the time set or at any time within 5 days thereafter to which the same is postponed or continued with due notice and may grant the same unless it is established thereat that the petition bears insufficient signatures as above required or, if originally sufficient, that by reason of written withdrawals thereof it has become insufficient.
     (2) The board may adjust the boundaries of the proposed district to reflect any freeholder's written request for subtraction or annexation of parcels of the freeholder's land adjacent to the boundary line of the proposed district. Such written request must be submitted to the board prior to or on the date set for hearing on the petition.
     (3) The board shall render its decision within 30 days after the hearing.

     History: En. Sec. 3237, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2081, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 16, L. 1915; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 16, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5148, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 15, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 5148, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 118, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 97, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 75, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 75, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 48, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 77, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 49, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 45, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 81, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 11-2008(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 470, L. 1985.