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13-19-201. How election initiated

13-19-201. How election initiated. A proposal to conduct an election under this chapter may be initiated by either the election administrator or the appropriate governing body as provided in 13-19-202 through 13-19-204. History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 196, L. 1985.

13-19-202. Initiation by governing body

13-19-202. Initiation by governing body. (1) A political subdivision may, by resolution of the governing body addressed to the election administrator, request that a particular election be conducted under the provisions of this chapter. (2) No later than 70 days before election day, the governing body shall transmit its request to the election administrator, who shall determine […]

13-19-203. Initiation by election administrator

13-19-203. Initiation by election administrator. (1) Even if a request has not been received from the governing body concerned, the election administrator may conduct any election authorized by 13-19-104 under this chapter if the election administrator determines that a mail ballot election is the most economically and administratively feasible way of conducting the election in question. […]

13-19-204. Objection of political subdivision

13-19-204. Objection of political subdivision. (1) A political subdivision may, by resolution of the governing body, object to the conduct of one of its elections under this chapter. The resolution must include a statement of the reasons for the objection. (2) If the resolution is filed with the election administrator no later than 55 days prior to […]

13-19-206. Distributing materials to electors — procedure

13-19-206. Distributing materials to electors — procedure. For each election conducted under this chapter, the election administrator shall: (1) mail a single packet to every qualified elector of the political subdivision conducting the election; (2) ensure that each packet contains only one each of the following: (a) an official ballot for each type of election being held on the […]

13-19-207. When materials to be mailed

13-19-207. When materials to be mailed. (1) Except as provided in 13-13-205(2) and subsection (2) of this section, for any election conducted by mail, ballots must be mailed no sooner than the 20th day and no later than the 15th day before election day. (2) All ballots mailed to electors on the active list and the provisionally […]