Within ten days after the filing of the findings and certificates of the canvassing board on the question of disorganization, the county auditor shall send a correct and duly certified abstract of the votes polled to the secretary of state. If fifty-five percent or more of all the legal votes cast in the county on the question shall be in favor of disorganization, the secretary of state shall notify
the governor immediately, and the governor shall issue a proclamation without delay announcing and declaring the result of the election. On and after January first following the date of such proclamation, the county shall be an unorganized county.
11-30-08. Governor to designate county to which unorganized county attached - Purposes of attachment. After the result of the election is proclaimed, but not before December fifteenth nor later than December thirty-first following, the governor, by proclamation, shall designate an adjoining organized county to which the unorganized county shall be attached for judicial, record, and taxation purposes, and all purposes of county government, and such proclamation shall become effective on January first following. If, before such December fifteenth, the board of county commissioners of the unorganized county designates, by resolution, the organized county to which the unorganized county desires to be attached, and if the organized county, before such date, agrees to such attachment, by resolution, the governor, by proclamation, shall declare that the unorganized county is attached to such organized county, effective on January first following the proclamation.
11-30-09. All offices abolished in disorganized county - Compensation of officers of disorganized county. All appointive officers in the service of the county and all elected county officers shall be deemed to be county officers for the purposes of this section. All county offices of an organized county shall be abolished when such county becomes an unorganized county. Payments equivalent to the salaries and other compensations customarily paid to the holders of such offices shall be paid to them until such time as their successors, except for the abolition of the offices, would have qualified and succeeded to their duties. Anyone re-elected to an office shall be deemed a successor to such office. If an officeholder possesses an indefinite term of office, payments shall not continue for more than one month after the county becomes an unorganized county. In the event that a person is elected to a county office which is abolished before the commencement of the term of office for which the person was elected, the person shall receive a payment equivalent in amount to one month's salary of the office to which the person was elected.