§ 163-41.1. Certain relatives prohibited from serving together.
§ 163‑41.1. Certain relatives prohibited from serving together.
(a) The following categories of relatives are prohibited fromserving as precinct officials of the same precinct: spouse, child, spouse of achild, sister or brother.
(b) No precinct official who is the wife, husband, mother,father, son, daughter, brother or sister of any candidate for nomination orelection may serve as precinct official during any primary or election in whichsuch candidate participates. The county board of elections shall temporarilydisqualify any such official for the specific primary or election involved andshall have authority to appoint a substitute official, from the same politicalparty, to serve only during the primary or election at which such conflictexists. (1975, c. 745;1979, c. 411, s. 2.)