Section 211. District commissioners

In  each such improvement district,
  there shall be an annual election on the second Tuesday in the month  of
  December of each year. The terms of office of all district commissioners
  elected  or appointed prior to the time this chapter takes effect, shall
  terminate  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  December,  nineteen   hundred
  thirty-three.  The  first annual election shall be held on the fifth day
  of December, nineteen hundred thirty-three  and  at  such  election  the
  qualified voters of the district shall elect one commissioner for a term
  of  one  year,  one  commissioner  for  a  term  of  two  years  and one
  commissioner for  a  term  of  three  years.  At  each  annual  election
  thereafter  one  commissioner shall be elected for a term of three years
  except as otherwise provided in section two  hundred  eleven-a  of  this
  article.  Every  resident of the district who is qualified to vote for a
  town  officer,  shall  be  eligible  to  hold  the  office  of  district
  commissioner.