260C.15 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS.

        260C.15  CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS.
         1.  Regular elections held by the merged area for the election of
      members of the board of directors as required by section 260C.11 or
      for any other matter authorized by law and designated for election by
      the board of directors of the merged area, shall be held on the date
      of the school election as fixed by section 277.1.  However, elections
      held for the renewal of the twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand
      dollars of assessed valuation levy authorized in section 260C.22
      shall be held either on the date of the school election as fixed by
      section 277.1 or at a special election held on the second Tuesday in
      September of the even-numbered year.  The election notice shall be
      made a part of the local school election notice published as provided
      in section 49.53 in each local school district where voting is to
      occur in the merged area election and the election shall be conducted
      by the county commissioner of elections pursuant to chapters 39
      through 53 and section 277.20.
         2.  A candidate for member of the board of directors of a merged
      area shall be nominated by a petition signed by not less than fifty
      eligible electors of the director district from which the member is
      to be elected.  The petition shall state the number of the director
      district from which the candidate seeks election, and the candidate's
      name and status as an eligible elector of the director district.
      Signers of the petition, in addition to signing their names, shall
      show their residence, including street and number if any, the school
      district in which they reside, and the date they signed the petition.
      A person may sign nomination petitions for more than one candidate
      for the same office, and the signature is not invalid solely because
      the person signed nomination petitions for one or more other
      candidates for the office.  The petition shall include the affidavit
      of the candidate being nominated, stating the candidate's name and
      residence, and that the individual is a candidate, is eligible for
      the office sought, and if elected will qualify for the office.
         3.  Nomination papers in behalf of candidates for member of the
      board of directors of a merged area shall be filed with the secretary
      of the board not earlier than sixty-five days nor later than five
      o'clock p.m. on the fortieth day prior to the election at which
      members of the board are to be elected.  The secretary shall deliver
      all nomination petitions so filed, together with the text of any
      public measure being submitted by the board of directors to the
      electorate, to the county commissioner of elections who is
      responsible under section 47.2 for conducting elections held for the
      merged area, not later than five o'clock p.m. on the day following
      the last day on which nomination petitions can be filed. That
      commissioner shall certify the names of candidates, and the text and
      summary of any public measure being submitted to the electorate, to
      all county commissioners of elections in the merged area by the
      thirty-fifth day prior to the election.
         4.  The votes cast in the election shall be canvassed and
      abstracts of the votes cast shall be certified as required by section
      277.20.  In each county whose commissioner of elections is
      responsible under section 47.2 for conducting elections held for a
      merged area, the county board of supervisors shall convene on the
      last Monday in September or at the last regular board meeting in
      September, canvass the abstracts of votes cast and declare the
      results of the voting.  The commissioner shall at once issue
      certificates of election to each person declared elected, and shall
      certify to the merged area board in substantially the manner
      prescribed by section 50.27 the result of the voting on any public
      question submitted to the voters of the merged area.  Members elected
      to the board of directors of a merged area shall qualify by taking
      the oath of office prescribed in section 277.28.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 280A.15] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         88 Acts, ch 1119, § 34; 88 Acts, ch 1158, § 57; 89 Acts, ch 136, §
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         C93, § 260C.15
         93 Acts, ch 35, § 1; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, § 5, 21; 2009 Acts, ch
      57, §75