Iowa § 331.201 - 331.201 Board membership — qualifications — term.

§ 331.201. 331.201 Board membership — qualifications — term.

1. The board shall consist of three members unless the membership is increased to five as provided in section 331.203. 2. A supervisor must be a registered voter of the county or supervisor district of the county which the supervisor represents. 3. The office of supervisor is an elective office except that if a vacancy occurs on the board, a successor may be appointed to the unexpired term as provided in section 69.14A, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, if the population of the county is less than one hundred twenty-five thousand based on the most recent federal decennial census and if the county does not include the main campus of an institution of higher learning governed by the state board of regents. 4. The term of office of a supervisor is four years unless a change in the supervisor district representation plan or in the number of supervisors on the board requires the election of one or two supervisors for an initial term of two years. [R60, §303; C73, §294, 299; C97, §410; SS15, §410; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5106; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §331.1; S81, §331.201; 81 Acts, ch 117, §200] 94 Acts, ch 1169, §64; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §83; 2025 Acts, ch 15, §7, 9 Referred to in §331.238, 331.248, 331.261 Subsection 3 amended Fri Dec 12 19:55:48 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 331.201 (21, 1)