23-17-27 - Failure to appeal, or loss of appeal of, Secretary's refusal to file petition.
§ 23-17-27. Failure to appeal, or loss of appeal of, Secretary's refusal to file petition.
If no appeal is taken from the refusal of the Secretary of State to file a petition within the time prescribed, or if an appeal is taken and the Secretary of State is not required to file the petition by the mandate of the Supreme Court, the Secretary of State shall destroy it.
Sources: Laws, 1993, ch. 514, § 14, eff from and after August 3, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objections under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the creation of this section).