7-33-2122. Petition for division -- hearing and notice. (1) Whenever a petition in writing shall be made to the county commissioners, signed by the owners of 20% or more of the privately owned lands of an area proposed to be detracted from the original district who constitute 20% or more of the taxpayers who are freeholders within such proposed detracted area and whose names appear upon the last-completed assessment roll, the county commissioners shall, within 10 days from the receipt of such petition, give notice of the hearing of the petition by mailing a copy of the notice by first-class mail to each freeholder in the district at the address shown in the assessment roll and by causing a notice thereof to be posted, at least 10 days prior to the time appointed by them for the consideration of the petition, in at least three of the most public places within the proposed detracted area and also in at least three of the most public places within the remaining area.
     (2) The petition for detraction shall describe the boundaries of the proposed detracted area and the boundaries of the remaining area.
     (3) The county commissioners shall, on the day fixed for hearing such petition (or on any legally postponed day), proceed to hear the petition.

     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).