Title 31 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-4101. Definitions. As used in this act the term: 1. "Service unit" means any structure inhabited by human beings for dwelling purposes and shall include each home, each apartment within a structure, and each unit within a motel or hotel structure or complex and shall include a…

31-4102. Translator district — Purposes. The purposes of a translator district shall be to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity in the construction, maintenance and operation of translator stations and any system necessary thereto by appropriate electronic means …

31-4103. Organizational area. Any area of the state may organize as a translator district for the performance of functions provided for in this act.

31-4104. District area. A translator district may include a part or all of any county or may include areas in more than one (1) county and may include any municipality located within the county or counties.

31-4105. Petition to form district. A petition to form a district shall be presented to the county clerk and recorder of each of the counties in which any portion of the area is situated. Petitions shall be signed by a number of not less than sixty per cent (60%) of the resident …

31-4106. Filing of petition. The petition shall be filed with the county clerk and recorder of all counties in which the signers on the petition are located. If the petition is filed with more than one (1) county clerk and recorder each petition shall state the number of signing …

31-4107. Notice — Text of petition published in newspaper — Sponsors pay cost. Upon receipt of a duly certified petition the board of county commissioners shall cause the text of the petition to be published once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of g…

31-4108. Hearing — Resolution adopted — Description and finding. At the time set for hearing the petition or petitions the board of county commissioners shall hear all persons who desire to be heard relative to the creation of a translator district. The board of county commission…

31-4109. Name of district — Filed with county clerk — Fees. When the board of county commissioners passes the resolution creating the district they shall name the district "Translator District" and file a copy of the order creating the district, if only one (1) county is included…

31-4110. Board of trustees — Appointment — Term. The board of county commissioners, on the creation of the district, and as part of the order creating the district, shall appoint a board of not less than five (5) nor more than nine (9) trustees to administer the affairs of the di…

31-4112. Budget — Special assessment. The board of trustees shall, from the list prepared by the county assessor or assessors, remove therefrom the names of any persons and their property who have claimed exemption under this act and shall prepare a budget for the expenses for th…

31-4113. Treasurer for district — Handling of funds — Qualification and duty. The board of trustees of the district shall appoint a treasurer, who may be bonded, to receive funds paid over by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the television translator district, who shall d…

31-4114. Powers and duties. A translator district organized under this act, acting through its board of trustees may: a. Perform all the acts and take all the necessary or proper steps to assure that there will be a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of television servic…

31-4115. Expenses — Limitation. Each translator district shall be liable for and shall pay to each county in which they are situated, the actual expense to the county in performing the duties required by its officers under the provisions of this act; in no event shall this amount…

31-4116. Compensation. The board of trustees of the district shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in the operation of the translator district.

31-4117. Exemptions from tax assessment. The real property owners of service units within the translator district who do not receive the signal of the translator station or who receive direct reception from the station from which the translator repeats a signal or receive service…

31-4118. Meetings — Open to public — Place. The board of trustees shall meet once a month at a regular time and place to transact the business of the district, the time and place to be fixed by the trustees and any change in the time and place of meetings shall be given by public…

31-4119. Fraudulent exemption claim — Penalty. Any person or persons who shall make a false or fraudulent claim for exemption as provided in this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

31-4120. Petition for abandonment — Assets deposited in county general fund. If at any time a petition for abandonment of the translator district, signed by not less than sixty per cent (60%) of the resident owners of real property within the district, is filed with the board of …

31-4121. Alteration and annexation of translator district boundaries — Procedure. The boundaries of a translator district created by authority of this act may be altered and outlying areas be annexed from territory contiguous to the district in the following manner: (1) A petitio…