Each district shall have a board of five directors each of whom, whether elected or appointed, shall be a voter of the district.

Notwithstanding Section 30500, the Board of Directors of the Sawyers Bar County Water District shall adopt a resolution ordering the reduction in the number of directors from five to three if, at least 85 days before a general district election, the board receives a petition that requests that reduction and a majority of the voters in the district has signed that petition.

The directors first elected upon the formation of the district shall hold office pursuant to Section 10505 of the Elections Code.

The term of office of each director other than directors first elected or directors appointed to fill an unexpired term shall be four years.

If a person elected fails to qualify, the office shall be filled as if there were a vacancy in the office.

All vacancies occurring in the office of director shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code.

Each director elected or appointed shall hold office until his successor qualifies.

Each director shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day’s attendance at meetings of the board or for each day’s service rendered as a director by request of the board, not exceeding a total of six days in any calendar month, together with any expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties required or authorized by the board. For purposes of this section, the determination of whether a director’s activities on any specific day are compensable shall be made pursuant to Article 2.3 (commencing with Section 53232) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. Reimbursement for these expenses is subject to Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3 of the Government Code.

Each director of the Contra Costa Water District shall receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day’s attendance at meetings of the board and for each day’s service rendered as a director by request of the board, not exceeding a total of 10 days in any calendar month, together with any expenses incurred in the performance of duties required or authorized by the board. For purposes of this section, the determination of whether a director’s activities on any specific day are compensable shall be made pursuant to Article 2.3 (commencing with Section 53232) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. Reimbursement for these expenses is subject to Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3 of the Government Code.

If a director’s place of residence, as defined in Section 244 of the Government Code, is moved outside district boundaries or outside the boundaries of that director’s division where elected from a division, and if within 180 days of the move or of the effective date of this section the director fails to reestablish a place of residence within the district or within the director’s division, it shall be presumed that a permanent change of residence has occurred and that a vacancy exists on the board of directors pursuant to Section 1770 of the Government Code.

Before entering upon the duties of his office each director shall take and subscribe the official oath and file it with the secretary.

The oath of office may be taken before the secretary, any member of the board of directors, or any officer authorized by law to administer oaths.

In a county water district formed to include all or part of Pleasant Valley, Ventura County, each member of the board of directors, whether elected or appointed, shall be either a voter of the district or an owner of land within the district.

The provisions of this section shall apply only to the board of directors of a county water district formed in all or part of Pleasant Valley, Ventura County. These special provisions are necessary for reasons similar to those expressed in Section 30205.

Notwithstanding Section 30500 or any other provision of this division, each member of the board of directors of the Canebrake County Water District in San Diego County, whether elected or appointed, shall be either a voter of the district or an owner of land within the district.

If, on or before July 1, 1977, a district has assumed the responsibilities, rights, duties, assets, liabilities, and obligations of a sanitary district, the board may, and from time to time thereafter may, increase the number of directors to serve thereon to seven, nine or eleven. The additional directors shall be elected at the next general district election or at a special election called for that purpose. One-half of the additional directors shall hold office until the election and qualification of their successors at the first succeeding general district election, and the other one-half of the additional directors shall hold office until the election and qualification of their successors at the second succeeding general district election. The additional directors shall classify themselves by lot to determine their initial terms of office. Thereafter, they shall hold office for the term provided in Section 30502.