11-44B-46
Section 11-44B-46 Establishment of personnel board; composition; terms; meetings; compensation;
records. (a) Upon election by ordinance of a city to participate in the personnel system provided
for in this article, there shall be established a personnel board composed of five members
designated, respectively, as place number 1, place number 2, place number 3, place number
4, and place number 5. Each member shall be of recognized good character and ability and a
resident and qualified elector of the city. No person shall be eligible for membership on
the board who holds any civil office of profit under the city, county, or state. No board
member shall be a member of any local committee of a political party, or an official of a
local partisan political club, or a candidate for nomination or election to any public office,
nor shall he or she take any part in the management or affairs of any local political party
or in any city political campaign, except to exercise his or her right as a...
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11-46-55
Section 11-46-55 Canvassing of returns and certificate of election; determination of majority;
runoff elections. (a) Commencing at 12:00 noon on the first Tuesday next after the election,
the municipal governing body shall proceed to open the envelopes addressed to the governing
body which have been delivered by the several returning officers to the municipal clerk, canvass
the returns, and ascertain and determine the number of votes received by each candidate and
for and against each proposition submitted at the election. If it appears that any candidate
or any proposition in the election has received a majority of the votes cast for that office
or on that question, the municipal governing body shall declare the candidate elected to the
office or the question carried, and a certificate of election shall be given to the persons
by the municipal governing body or a majority of them, which shall entitle the persons so
certified to the possession of their respective offices immediately...
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16-13-164
Section 16-13-164 Ballot and election supplies. The county commission shall provide a sufficient
number of ballots for each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each ballot
shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is to be continued and that the
purpose is for the support of the public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall
be printed on different lines the words, "For proposed taxation," "Against
proposed taxation," and a place must be left directly to the left of each line thereof,
and the voters favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left
of the line, "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring proposed taxation
will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line "Against proposed taxation."
(School Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 52, §250.)...
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11-16-11
Section 11-16-11 Inspectors, clerks, and returning officers - Appointment. Between 10 and 30
days prior to the day appointed for such election the said board of commissioners shall appoint
three inspectors, two clerks, and one returning officer to hold and conduct said election
for each of the voting places in the county. One of said inspectors and one of said clerks
for each voting place shall be appointed as recommended for that purpose by qualified electors
favoring such removal and one of said inspectors and one of said clerks for each voting place
shall be appointed as recommended for that purpose by qualified electors opposing removal
and the third inspector and returning officers for each voting place shall be selected by
the board of commissioners. If there shall be a bona fide organization of electors favoring
such removal or such organization opposing such removal, one or both, the chairman or head
of such organization shall have the superior right to thus recommend persons...
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11-46-42
Section 11-46-42 Number of electors allowed in polling place; time limit, etc., for occupation
of booth. Where paper ballots are used, no more than 10 electors shall be allowed in the polling
place at the same time. In all elections for which voting booths or compartments have been
provided, if all such booths or compartments are occupied and other electors are waiting to
vote, no elector shall occupy a booth or compartment for a longer time than five minutes.
No elector shall be allowed to occupy a booth or compartment already occupied by another nor
to speak or converse with anyone except as provided in this article while in the polling place.
After having voted or declined or failed to vote within five minutes, the elector shall immediately
withdraw from the polling place and go beyond the prohibited distance and shall not enter
the polling place again. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §22.)...
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17-16-48
Section 17-16-48 Notice of nature of evidence. No testimony must be received of any illegal
votes or of the rejection of any legal votes in any contested election commenced under the
provisions of this article unless the party complaining thereof has given to the adverse party
notice in writing of the number of illegal votes and by whom given and for whom given, and
at what precinct or voting place cast, or the number of legal votes rejected, and by whom
offered, and at what precinct or voting place cast, which the party expects to prove on the
trial. Such notice must be served personally or left at the residence or usual place of business
of the adverse party at least 10 days before the taking of testimony in reference to such
votes. (Code 1896, §1687; Code 1907, §461; Code 1923, §551; Code 1940, T. 17, §237; §17-15-21;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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17-8-5
Section 17-8-5 Political parties furnish lists from which appointments are made. Each political
party or organization having made nominations, by the chair of its state or county executive
committee or nominees for office, may furnish the appointing board a list of names of recommended
poll workers from qualified electors for each voting place not later than 45 days before the
election. From the lists provided, one inspector and at least three clerks shall be appointed
for each voting place from members of opposing political parties, if practicable. If there
are more than two lists filed, the appointments shall be made from the lists presented by
the two political parties having received the highest number of votes in the state in the
next preceding regular election, if each of the parties presents a list. If no lists are furnished,
the appointing board shall appoint an inspector and at least three clerks for each voting
place from the qualified electors of the precinct from members of...
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17-8-6
Section 17-8-6 Failure of election officials to attend. On the failure of any precinct election
official to attend at the hour of 7:00 A.M., such precinct election officials as may be present
may complete the number. If the inspector appointed is not present, the other precinct election
officials present shall choose one of their number to serve as inspector and shall appoint
from the qualified electors, who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place at the
election then to be held, such clerks as may be necessary to complete the requisite number
of precinct election officials. If there should be no precinct election officials present
at the polling place by the hour of 7:00 A.M., then any four qualified electors who are entitled
by law to vote at that polling place at the election then to be held may open the polls and
act as precinct election officials for the voting place during the absence of an appointed
precinct election official. (Code 1876, §262; Code 1886, §355; Code...
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11-46-34
Section 11-46-34 Voting booths. For all elections at which paper ballots will be used, the
chief executive officer of the municipality at the expense of the municipality shall provide
at each polling place in all municipalities having a population of over 3,000 inhabitants
a room or covered enclosure and in such room or covered enclosure shall provide booths or
compartments, one booth or compartment for each 100 or fraction thereof over 50 electors registered
in the ward or wards in such municipality for that election, and shall furnish each booth
or compartment with a shelf or table for the convenience of the electors in the preparation
of their ballots. Each booth or compartment shall be so arranged that it will be impossible
for one elector at a shelf or table in one compartment to see an elector at a shelf or table
in another compartment in the act of marking his ballot. Each voting shelf or table shall
be kept supplied with conveniences for marking the ballots. In voting places in...
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17-12-11
Section 17-12-11 Returns of election - How made; duty of judge of probate. One copy of the
certificate of the result of the election shall be signed by the inspector and enclosed in
an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed, and the inspector shall write his or her
name across every fold at which the envelope, if unfastened, could be opened. The envelope,
with certificate enclosed, shall be at once delivered to the judge of probate in the condition
received. The judge of probate shall keep and preserve the same unopened until the canvassing
board meets to ascertain the result of the election. In case of loss, mutilation, or absence
of the original certificate of the result of the election by the inspectors of any voting
place, the envelope shall be opened, and the copy therein shall be accepted as a certificate
of the result of the election for that voting place. The judge of probate shall preserve a
copy of the sealed election returns as a public record at least one year from...
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