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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="8-403" title_number="8" title_name="Soil Conservation" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Division, Combination, and Termination of Districts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The supervisors of each resulting district shall file a verified application with the Secretary of State when the property, assets, and rights to which they are entitled under division or combination, or both, are received.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The application shall recite:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The petition for the division or combination, or both, of the district was filed with the Committee pursuant to the provisions of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The proceedings specified in this subtitle were taken pursuant to the petition;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The application is being filed in order to complete the division or combination, or both, of any old district;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The supervisors have been appointed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The name and official residence of each supervisor, together with a certified copy of the appointments evidencing his rights to office;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The term of office of each supervisor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>The name of the district; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>The location of the principal office of the supervisors.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The application shall be executed and sworn to by each supervisor before an officer, authorized by law to take and certify oaths, who shall certify on the application that he personally knows each supervisor, knows him to be the officer as affirmed in the application, and that each has subscribed to the application in his presence.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The application shall be accompanied by a statement of the Committee, which shall recite the fact that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A petition was filed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice was given;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A referendum was held on the question of dividing or combining, or both, the named districts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Committee determined that division or combination, or both, was administratively feasible;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The division or combination, or both, of the property, assets, and rights was decided upon and carried out in accordance with this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The boundaries of the district are as described in the petition, or as further defined by the Committee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
