If a candidate named under this chapter declines a nomination, or dies before election day, or if a certificate of nomination is held insufficient or inoperative by the officer with whom it is required to be filed, or in case any objection made to a certificate of nomination, or to the eligibility of any candidate named in the certificate, is sustained by the board appointed to determine such questions, the vacancy or vacancies may be filled by the convention, or caucus, or in such manner as such convention or caucus has previously provided. The vacancy or vacancies shall be filled not less than seventy-four days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the state commissioner, not less than sixty-four days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the commissioner, not less than thirty-five days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed in the office of the school board secretary, and not less than forty-two days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the city clerk.
[C97, § 1102; C24, § 653; C27, 31, 35, § 655-a11; C39, § 655.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 44.11]
89 Acts, ch 136, §26
Referred to in § 44.14
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