1-4-803. Petitions for nominating school district directors.

Statute text

(1) (a) Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director in a school district in which fewer than one thousand students are enrolled shall file a nomination petition signed by at least twenty-five eligible electors from throughout the school district, regardless of the school district's plan of representation. Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director in a school district in which one thousand students or more are enrolled shall file a nomination petition signed by at least fifty eligible electors from throughout the school district, regardless of the school district's plan of representation. An eligible elector may sign as many petitions as candidates for whom that elector may vote.

(b) A person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director may not circulate the nomination petition for signatures prior to ninety days before the election.

(c) The petition may designate or appoint on its face one or more eligible electors as a committee to fill vacancies in the nomination.

(2) The nomination petition must be filed no later than sixty-seven days before the election date.

(3) If a school district has an at-large method of representation and if terms of different lengths are to be filled at a district election, candidates must designate on the nomination petition the term for which they are running.

(4) A candidate for the office of school director shall not run as a candidate of any political party for that school directorship.

(5) The candidate for the office of school director shall have been a registered elector of the school district, as shown on the books of the county clerk and recorder, for at least twelve consecutive months prior to the date of the election.

History

Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 686, 7, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: (2) amended, p. 1406, 30, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1153, 14, effective July 1. L. 95: (1) amended, p. 831, 30, effective July 1. L. 98: (5) amended, p. 291, 2, effective July 1. L. 99: (1) amended, p. 468, 1, effective April 30; (2) amended, p. 765, 26, effective May 20. L. 2006: (1) and (5) amended, p. 1024, 6, effective May 25. L. 2017: (1)(c) added, (SB 17-209), ch. 234, p. 947, 3, effective August 9.