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\ SECTION 5. The regular elections of such water district shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April of the second calendar year after the completion of the organization thereof, and on the same day biennially thereafter, biennially after the first regular election therein. The directors elected at the organization election shall be selected by lot so that three directors shall hold office until their successors are elected at the next regular election and qualify, and four directors shall hold office until their successors are elected at the second regular election after organization and qualify, and at the regular election biennially thereafter directors shall be elected, to replace the directors whose terms expire, for terms of four years, or until their successors are elected and qualify. Directors so elected shall have the qualification prescribed in this act for directors elected at the time of organization. Nominations for the office of directors shall be made by filing a declaration with the secretary within fifty days before the date of election and not later than twenty days before such election. Candidates shall pay twenty-five dollars filing fee with such declaration. In the event there shall be no contest for office and no matters or propositions to be voted upon at any such election, then such election shall not be held, and the duly qualified candidates shall be deemed elected as of the date said election would otherwise have been held, and the board of directors must declare on its records said candidates to have been elected. SECTION 6. Not less than fifteen nor more than twenty days before any election held under this act subsequent to the organization of the district, the secretary shall cause notice specifying the polling places and time of holding the election to be posted in three public places in each election precinct and in the office of the board of directors. Prior to the time for posting the notice the board of directors shall appoint three qualified electors to act as inspectors of election in each election precinct, and shall also appoint two clerks of election for each precinct. If the board of directors fail to appoint a board of election or the members appointed do not attend the opening of the polls on the morning of election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint the board or supply the place of absent members thereof. The board of directors shall, in its order appointing the board of election, designate the hour and the place in each precinct where the election shall be held. The secretary shall be ex officio district registrar c' the district, and may, at least four weeks before any election, appoint a deputy registrar in^each election precinct, whose duty it shall be to register all electors within his precinct applying for registration, and for this purpose he or she shall have authority to demand of the elector al1 information, and to administer all oaths required by this act. Such registrar and deputy registrar shall be governed in the performance of their duties by the general election laws of this state as far as they are applicable and shall be at their places of registration to receive applications for registration from 9 o’clock a. m. until 9 o’clock p. m. on each of three Wednesdays next preceding the date of election. The registrars shall require registrants to take the following oath in substance: "I am, or have declared by intention to become, a citizen of the United States, am over the age of twenty-one years, and am, or properly represent, under the law in pursuance of which this election is to be held, the bona fide holder of title or evidence of title of real property within the boundaries of the Las Vegas valley water district, and such holding is for all purposes and not simply for this election or matters connected therewith.” No election for any purpose except for organization shall be held in such water district without such registration, and only electors duly registered shall be entitled to vote thereat; provided, however, that if an elector has voted at the last preceding district election, whether special or general, and is still eligible, he shall not be required to reregister in order to vote at the next succeeding election, but before he shall be permitted to vote at such election, if he shall not have reregistered therefor, he shall be required to take and subscribe the registration oath before the board of election, on a form provided by the district, as evidence of his continued eligibility. In all pollbooks and lists of registered electors prepared for any election here­under, the names of electors who have registered or reregistered for such election shall be distinguished from the names of those who voted at the last preceding district election, but who have not so registered or reregistered, by the letter R enclosed in parentheses placed before each of the names of the former and omission thereof in connection with the names of the former,and the omission thereof in connection with the hatoesJ of the lattbril Registration of voters for anyregular„6r.special election shall close on the Wednesday preceding such election. The registration oath may be -4-