50.29  Certificate of election.

When any person is thus declared elected, there shall be delivered to that person a certificate of election, under the official seal of the county, in substance as follows: 


 STATE OF IOWA            )                                                                                                             
 . . . . . . . .  County.) 

At an election held in said county on the . . . . day of . . . . . . , A.D. . . . , . . . . . . (candidate's name) was elected to the office of . . . . . . for the term of . . . years from the . . . . day of . . . . . . , A.D. . . . (or if elected to fill a vacancy, for the residue of the term ending on the . . . . day of . . . . . . , A.D. . . . ), and until a successor is elected and qualified.


             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,                                                                                                                    
             President of Board of Canvassers.                                                                                           
   Witness,      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,                                                                                                        
             County Commissioner of Elections                                                                                            
               (clerk). 

Such certificate is presumptive evidence of the person's election and qualification.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 277; R60, § 511, 514; C73, § 641; C97, § 1155; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 868; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 50.29]

Section History: Recent form

  87 Acts, ch 115, §9; 2000 Acts, ch 1058, §9

Internal References

  Referred to in § 331.383


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