When the boundaries of the territory to be included in a proposed school corporation and the number and method of the election of the school directors of the proposed school corporation have been determined as provided in this chapter, the area education agency administrator with whom the petition is filed shall give written notice of the proposed date of the election to the county commissioner of elections of the county in the proposed school corporation which has the greatest taxable base. The proposed date shall be as soon as possible pursuant to section 39.2, subsections 1 and 2, and section 47.6, subsections 1 and 2, but not later than November 30 of the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the reorganization will take effect.
The county commissioner of elections shall give notice of the election by one publication in the same newspaper in which previous notices have been published regarding the proposed school reorganization, and in addition, if more than one county is involved, by one publication in a legal newspaper in each county other than that of the first publication. The publication shall be not less than four nor more than twenty days prior to the election. If the decision published pursuant to section 275.15 or 275.16 includes a description of the proposed school corporation and a description of the director districts, if any, the notice for election and the ballot do not need to include these descriptions. Notice for an election shall not be published until the expiration of time for appeal, which shall be the same as that provided in section 275.15 or 275.16, whichever is applicable; and if there is an appeal, not until the appeal has been disposed of.
The area education agency administrator shall furnish to the commissioner a map of the proposed reorganized area which must be approved by the commissioner as suitable for posting. The map shall be displayed prominently in at least four places within the voting precinct, and inside each voting booth, or on the left- hand side inside the curtain of each voting machine.
[R60, § 2097, 2105; C73, § 1800, 1801; C97, § 2794; SS15, § 2794, 2794-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4142, 4164; C46, 50, § 274.24, 275.4, 276.11; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 275.18]
83 Acts, ch 53, § 2; 85 Acts, ch 221, §4; 98 Acts, ch 1123, § 12
Referred to in § 275.11, 275.12, 275.23, 275.23A, 275.24, 275.27
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