69.13 - VACANCIES -- SENATOR IN CONGRESS AND ELECTIVE STATE OFFICERS.
69.13 VACANCIES -- SENATOR IN CONGRESS AND ELECTIVE
STATE OFFICERS.
If a vacancy occurs in the office of senator in the Congress of
the United States, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of
state, secretary of agriculture, or attorney general eighty-nine or
more days before a general election, and the unexpired term in which
the vacancy exists has more than seventy days to run after the date
of that general election, the vacancy shall be filled for the balance
of the unexpired term at that general election and the person elected
to fill the vacancy shall assume office as soon as a certificate of
election has been issued and the person has qualified.
If the unexpired term of office in which the vacancy occurs will
expire within seventy days after the date of the next pending
election, section 69.11 applies. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 69.13] Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 136, § 62; 91 Acts, ch 129, § 21; 92 Acts, ch 1067, §
1; 97 Acts, ch 170, §79
Referred to in § 43.6, 43.77, 69.8, 331.322