76-16-302. Membership in district. (1) Membership in the district is limited to persons engaged in the livestock business who own or lease forage-producing lands within or near the district, except that the agent of a person entitled to membership in the district may become a member in place of the agent's principal.
     (2) If an agent becomes a member, the agent's qualifications for membership and the agent's obligations to and the privileges in the district must be measured by those that the agent's principal would have had if the principal had elected to become a member. An agent and the agent's principal may not both be members of the district unless the agent has individual qualifications for membership that are separable from and independent of those of the principal.
     (3) Livestock producers owning or controlling base property within the designated boundaries of the district and who held preference during the preceding grazing season or at the time of voting must be designated as permittee members.

     History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 208, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 163, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 44, Ch. 253, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 46-2314(part); amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 401, L. 1999.