256.63  Election.

A trustee of a regional board shall be elected without regard to political affiliation at the general election by the vote of the electors of the trustee's district from a list of nominees, the names of which have been taken from nomination papers filed in accordance with chapter 45 in all respects except that they shall be signed by not less than twenty-five eligible electors of the respective district. The election shall be administered by the commissioner who has jurisdiction under section 47.2.

The votes cast in the election shall be canvassed and abstracts of the votes cast shall be promptly certified by the commissioner to the commissioner of elections who is responsible under section 47.2 for conducting elections for that regional library board district. In each county whose commissioner of elections is responsible under section 47.2 for conducting elections held for a regional library board district, the county board of supervisors shall convene at nine a.m. on the third Monday in November, canvass the abstracts of votes cast and declare the results of the voting. The commissioner shall at once issue certificates of election to each person declared elected.

Section History: Recent form

  93 Acts, ch 48, §26

Internal References

  Referred to in § 39.21, 256.62, 256.66, 256.68


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