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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93 Acts, ch 35, § 1; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, § 5, 21; 2009 Acts, ch
57, §75