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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 39.21, Code 1999, is amended by adding 1 2 the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 5. Township trustees as provided in 1 4 section 39.22. 1 5 Sec. 2. Section 39.21, Code 1999, is amended by adding the 1 6 following new subsection: 1 7 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. Township clerk as provided in section 1 8 39.22. 1 9 Sec. 3. Section 39.22, subsection 2, Code 1999, is amended 1 10 to read as follows: 1 11 2. BY ELECTION. If the county board of supervisors does 1 12 not have the power provided under subsection 1 to fill the 1 13 offices of trustee and clerk within a township by appointment, 1 14 then the offices of township trustee and township clerk shall 1 15 be filled by election on a nonpartisan basis. Township 1 16 trustees and the township clerk, in townships which do not 1 17 include a city, shall be elected by the voters of the entire 1 18 township. In townships which include a city, the officers 1 19 shall be elected by the voters of the township who reside 1 20 outside the corporate limits of the city, but a township 1 21 officer may be a resident of the city. 1 22 a. TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. The election of township officers 1 23 shall take place at the general election on ballots which 1 24 shall not reflect a nominee's political affiliation. 1 25 Nomination shall be made by petition in accordance with 1 26 chapter 45. The petition form shall be furnished by the 1 27 county commissioner of elections and shall be filed with the 1 28 county commissioner of elections. A plurality is sufficient 1 29 to elect the township officers, and no primary election for 1 30 the offices shall be held. 1 31a.b. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES. Township trustees shall be 1 32 elected biennially to succeed those whose terms of office 1 33 expire on the first day of January following the election 1 34 which is not a Sunday or legal holiday. The term of office of 1 35 each elected township trustee is four years, except as 2 1 provided in subsection 1 for initial terms following 2 2 restoration of the election process. 2 3b.c. TOWNSHIP CLERK. At the general election held in the 2 4 year 1990 and every four years thereafter, in each civil 2 5 township one township clerk shall be elected who shall hold 2 6 office for the term of four years. 2 7 Sec. 4. Section 43.53, Code 1999, is amended to read as 2 8 follows: 2 9 43.53 NOMINEES FOR SUBDIVISION OFFICE – WRITE-IN 2 10 CANDIDATES. 2 11 The nominee of each political party for any office to be 2 12 filled by the voters of anytownship or otherpolitical 2 13 subdivision within the county shall be the person receiving 2 14 the highest number of votes cast in the primary election by 2 15 the voters of that party for the office. That person shall 2 16 appear as the party's candidate for the office on the general 2 17 election ballot. A person whose name is not printed on the 2 18 official primary ballot shall not be declared nominated as a 2 19 candidate for such office in the general election unless that 2 20 person receives at least five votes. Nomination of a 2 21 candidate for the office of county supervisor elected from a 2 22 district within the county shall be governed by section 43.52 2 23 and not by this section. 2 24 Sec. 5. Section 49.37, subsection 3, Code 1999, is amended 2 25 to read as follows: 2 26 3. The commissioner shall arrange the partisan county 2 27 offices on the ballot with the board of supervisors first, 2 28 followed by the other county officesand township officesin 2 29 the same sequence in which they appear in sections 39.17 and 2 30 39.22. Nonpartisan offices, with the township offices first, 2 31 shall be listed after partisan offices. 2 32 Sec. 6. Section 43.21, Code 1999, is repealed. 2 33 EXPLANATION 2 34 This bill changes the offices of township trustee and 2 35 township clerk to nonpartisan offices nominated for election 3 1 by the petition process, without regard to political 3 2 affiliation. A nominating petition for a township office 3 3 requires signatures of at least 10 eligible electors of the 3 4 township. 3 5 LSB 1065YH 78 3 6 sc/sc/14
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