20A-5-301 - Combined voting precincts -- Municipalities.
20A-5-301. Combined voting precincts -- Municipalities.
(1) (a) The municipal legislative body of a city of the first or second class may combineup to four regular county voting precincts into one municipal voting precinct for purposes of amunicipal election if they designate the location and address of each of those combined votingprecincts.
(b) The polling place shall be within the combined voting precinct or within 1/2 mile ofthe boundaries of the voting precinct.
(2) (a) The municipal legislative body of a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or townmay combine two or more regular county voting precincts into one municipal voting precinct forpurposes of an election if it designates the location and address of that combined voting precinct.
(b) If only two precincts are combined, the polling place shall be within the combinedprecinct or within 1/2 mile of the boundaries of the combined voting precinct.
(c) If more than two precincts are combined, the polling place should be as near aspractical to the middle of the combined precinct.
Amended by Chapter 256, 2007 General Session