House Journal: Page 861: Thursday, March 25, 1999

 6   CANDIDATES.

 7     The nominee of each political party for any office
 8   to be filled by the voters of any township or other
 9   political subdivision within the county shall be the
10   person receiving the highest number of votes cast in
11   the primary election by the voters of that party for
12   the office.  That person shall appear as the party's
13   candidate for the office on the general election
14   ballot.  A person whose name is not printed on the
15   official primary ballot shall not be declared
16   nominated as a candidate for such office in the
17   general election unless that person receives at least
18   five votes.  Nomination of a candidate for the office
19   of county supervisor elected from a district within
20   the county shall be governed by section 43.52 and not
21   by this section.
22     Sec.     .  Section 49.37, subsection 3, Code 1999,
23   is amended to read as follows:
24     3.  The commissioner shall arrange the partisan
25   county offices on the ballot with the board of
26   supervisors first, followed by the other county
27   offices and township offices in the same sequence in
28   which they appear in sections 39.17 and 39.22.
29   Nonpartisan offices, with the township offices first,
30   shall be listed after partisan offices."
31        .  Page 1, by inserting after line 27 the
32   following:
33     "Sec.     .  Section 43.21, Code 1999, is repealed."
34        .  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
35   word "offices" the following:  "and relating to
36   election of township officers"."
Amendment H?1142 was adopted.
Fallon of Polk moved the adoption of amendment H-1078, as 
amended.
Amendment H?1078, as amended, was adopted.
Dix of Butler asked and received unanimous consent that House 
File 590 be deferred and that the bill retain its place on the calendar.
Speaker Corbett in the chair at 10:06 a.m.
House File 501, a bill for an act relating to the imposition of 
mandatory minimum fines upon conviction of certain felonies, was 
taken up for consideration.

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