§1206. Election of three supervisors for each district

            A. Within thirty days after the date of issuance by the secretary of state of a certificate of organization of a soil and water conservation district, nomination petitions may be filed with the state soil and water conservation commission to nominate candidates for supervisors of the district. The commission shall have authority to extend the time within which nominating petitions may be filed. No nominating petition shall be accepted by the board, unless the registrar of voters in the parish where the signers reside has certified, pursuant to R.S. 18:3, that the petition has been subscribed by twenty-five or more qualified voters within the district. Qualified voters may sign more than one such nominating petition to nominate more than one candidate for supervisor. The names of all nominees on behalf of whom nominating petitions have been filed within the time designated in this Subsection shall be submitted to the secretary of state as candidates in an election to be held by the secretary of state as a private election. The three candidates who receive the largest number, respectively, of the votes cast in the election shall be the elected supervisors for the district.

            B. If the total number of candidates duly presented in nominating petitions does not exceed the number of supervisor places to be filled by election, then and in that event, the state commission is authorized and empowered to dispense with the election procedure outlined above and to declare each of said candidates duly qualified as a supervisor without the requirement of an election the same as if his name had been presented to the qualified voters in an election. Candidates so qualified shall be considered for all purposes "elected supervisors" wherever such term appears in this Part.

            C. The secretary of state and the commissioner of agriculture and forestry may adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of this Section.

            Amended by Acts 1956, No. 10, §4; Acts 1958, No. 231, §2; Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008; Acts 2026, No. 180, §1.