25-2201. Expenses subject to apportionment; payment by county; reimbursement; basis for apportionment.
25-2201
25-2201. Expenses subject to apportionment; payment by county;reimbursement; basis for apportionment.(a) Election expenses of all primary, general and question submittedelections which are township, city, school or community junior collegeelections shall be paid by the boards of county commissioners of therespective counties. Election expenses of all public special districts forwhich it is provided by law that the county election officer, county clerk,or county election commissioner is to conduct the election, shall be paidby the boards of county commissioners of the respective counties, and theprovisions of this act shall apply thereto in the same manner as the sameapply to township, city, school, and community junior colleges.
(b) The direct expenses of any primary, general and question submittedelections which are township, city, school or community junior collegeelections, except for any such election held on a day when every registeredvoter in the county is authorized to vote at one election or another, shallbe reimbursed to the county by the township, city, school or communityjunior college district for which such expenses are incurred. Indirectexpenses of such elections shall not be reimbursed to the county. All costsof publication of notices of election shall be reimbursed to the county bythe township, city, school district or community junior college to whichthe notice applies.
(c) Whenever reimbursement to the county is required under subsection(b), the direct expenses of any election held at the same time and in thesame area as an election for another subdivision of government shall beapportioned among the subdivisions of government for which such expensesare incurred, in equal proportions. In the event that the subdivisions ofgovernment sharing the expense of an election are not coextensive interritory, the subdivision of government which does not extend into aparticular area shall not share in the expense of the voting place for sucharea.
History: L. 1968, ch. 53, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 164, § 1; L. 1974, ch.165, § 1; March 22.