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 his principal.
     (2) If an agent becomes a member, his qualifications for membership and his obligations to and the privileges in the district shall be measured by those his principal would have had if he had elected to become a member. An agent and his principal may not both be members of the district unless the agent has individual qualifications for membership which are separable from and independent of those of his principal.
     (3) All members who possessed preferential grazing permits during the preceding grazing season or who possess such a permit at the time of voting shall 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).