277.4 - NOMINATIONS REQUIRED.
277.4 NOMINATIONS REQUIRED.
Nomination papers for all candidates for election to office in
each school district shall be filed with the secretary of the school
board not more than sixty-four days, nor less than forty days before
the election. Nomination petitions shall be filed not later than
five p.m. on the last day for filing. If the school board secretary
is not readily available during normal office hours, the secretary
may designate a full-time employee of the school district who is
ordinarily available to accept nomination papers under this section.
On the final date for filing nomination papers the office of the
school secretary shall remain open until five p.m.
Each candidate shall be nominated by petition. If the candidate
is running for a seat in the district which is voted for at-large,
the petition must be signed by the greater of at least ten eligible
electors or a number of eligible electors equal in number to not less
than one percent of the registered voters of the school district,
which number need not be more than fifty. If the candidate is
running for a seat which is voted for only by the voters of a
director district, the petition must be signed by the greater of at
least ten eligible electors of the director district or a number of
eligible electors equal in number to not less than one percent of the
registered voters in the director district, which number need not be
more than fifty.
Signers of nomination petitions shall include their addresses and
the date of signing, and must reside in the same director district as
the candidate if directors are elected by the voters of a director
district, rather than at-large. 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 be filed with the affidavit of the candidate being
nominated, stating the candidate's name, place of residence, that
such person is a candidate and is eligible for the office the
candidate seeks, and that if elected the candidate will qualify for
the office. The affidavit shall also state that the candidate is
aware that the candidate is disqualified from holding office if the
candidate has been convicted of a felony or other infamous crime and
the candidate's rights have not been restored by the governor or by
the president of the United States.
The secretary of the school board shall accept the petition for
filing if on its face it appears to have the requisite number of
signatures and if it is timely filed. The secretary of the school
board shall note upon each petition and affidavit accepted for filing
the date and time that the petition was filed. The secretary of the
school board shall deliver all nomination petitions, together with
the complete text of any public measure being submitted by the board
to the electorate, to the county commissioner of elections not later
than five o'clock p.m. on the day following the last day on which
nomination petitions can be filed.
Any person on whose behalf nomination petitions have been filed
under this section may withdraw as a candidate by filing a signed
statement to that effect with the secretary at any time prior to five
o'clock p.m. on the thirty-fifth day before the election. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2754; C24, § 4201; C27, § 4201, 4216-b4, -b5; C31, 35, §
4216-c4; C39, § 4216.04; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
79, 81, § 277.4] Section History: Recent Form
87 Acts, ch 221, §32; 88 Acts, ch 1119, § 32; 89 Acts, ch 136,
§63; 90 Acts, ch 1238, § 35; 93 Acts, ch 143, § 45; 94 Acts, ch 1180,
§42; 95 Acts, ch 189, §19; 97 Acts, ch 170, §84; 98 Acts, ch 1052, §
6; 2004 Acts, ch 1088, §1
Referred to in § 275.25, 277.20, 279.7