9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries;
reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory
proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water
Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to
function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The
proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health,
safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory
described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as
a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by
legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request
that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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17-17-7
Section 17-17-7 Officers not to compare poll list with ballot. Any inspector, clerk, watcher,
or chair of an executive committee who compares the number on the poll list with the number
of the ballot of any voter for the purpose of ascertaining how any voter voted, except in
case of contest, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C misdemeanor. (Code 1907, §6821;
Code 1923, §3944; Code 1940, T. 17, §398; §17-16-49; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570,
p. 1331, §87.)...
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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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17-8-7
Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers. (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political
party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector
by the chair of the county executive committee or nominees for office or beat committeeman,
may appoint a watcher for each voting place. In the event of an election in which there are
no candidates, each political party, through a writing submitted to the inspector by the chair
of the county executive committee, may appoint a watcher for each voting place. (b) Watchers
shall have the right to: (1) Observe the conduct of the election. (2) Monitor the preliminaries
of opening the polls. (3) Remain at the polling place throughout the election until the results
of the election have been posted and the voting machines sealed, as provided by law. (4) Observe
the ballots as they are counted. (5) Observe absentee ballots and affidavits when they are
called during the count. (6) See all oaths administered and...
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12-21-6
Section 12-21-6 Copy of hospital records - Subpoena duces tecum; inspection; form; weight.
(a) A certified copy of said hospital records may be procured by any litigant in any court
of competent jurisdiction in the state by subpoena duces tecum, and when any such subpoena
duces tecum is issued for said hospital records, the custodian of said hospital records shall
prepare a copy of said hospital records as provided in this subsection and securely seal the
same in an envelope or other container and date and fill out and sign a certificate in substantially
the form provided in Section 12-21-7 and place on, or securely fasten said certificate to
the outside of, said envelope or container in which said copy of said hospital records are
placed and deliver the same to the clerk or register of the court hearing, or to hear or to
try, the case or proceeding in which the records are sought, and he shall not otherwise be
required to appear in court unless thereafter ordered to do so by the...
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11-16-40
Section 11-16-40 Penalties for failure to perform duties required by chapter, etc. Any officer
or person who shall willfully or corruptly fail to perform any duty required of him under
any of the provisions of this chapter; or shall fraudulently alter or change the ballot of
any elector after it has been cast; or shall make any false or fraudulent count of votes;
or shall place in the receptacle for ballots any ballot not actually cast by an elector; or
shall take therefrom any ballot cast by an elector, with the intention of unlawfully changing
or affecting the result of the election; or shall make any false poll list or any false count
of the ballots or any false certificate to a poll list or to the result of the count of the
ballots; or shall wrongfully open the returns from any precinct or ward; or shall change,
secrete, destroy, or mutilate the returns from any precinct or ward or attempt to do so; or
shall prevent or attempt to prevent any such return from being made as required...
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17-13-15
Section 17-13-15 When voted ballots container and records of election container may be opened.
After the result has been canvassed and declared by the county executive committee, the sheriff
shall securely keep the voted ballots container and the records of election container in accordance
with state and federal law. The voted ballots container and records of election container
shall not be opened except in one or the other of the following events: (1) In the event of
a contest, where the opening of the container has been authorized under authority of the chair
of the executive committee trying the contest. (2) Where a container has been returned but
no certificate of the result of the election has been sent the chair outside of the container,
the container may be opened by the sheriff in the presence of the chairs, or their designees,
of the county committees for the political parties participating in the primary election,
and the committees, for canvassing purposes, may obtain the...
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17-6-28
Section 17-6-28 Requirements for write-in votes. (a) Write-in votes shall be permitted only
in non-municipal general elections and shall be counted as provided in this section based
on one of the following: (1) Upon a determination that the number of write-in votes for a
specific office is greater than or equal to the difference in votes between the two candidates
receiving the greatest number of votes for the specific office. (2) Upon a written request
satisfying the requirements in subsection (i). (b) The ballot for a non-municipal general
election must be constructed so that the voter can mark a write-in vote for each office in
the same manner that votes are registered for regular candidates. In order to cast a valid
write-in vote, the voter must (1) write the name on the ballot and (2) register the vote by
a mark in the space designated for that office. A write-in vote that is not registered as
provided above shall not be considered a valid write-in vote and shall not be included...

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11-46-39
Section 11-46-39 Oath and identification of voters challenged; voting procedure where paper
ballots used. (a) Where paper ballots are used, the inspector, upon the elector's entering
the polling place, shall examine the list of qualified electors furnished by the clerk pursuant
to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-36, and, if it appears from this examination that the person
is a qualified elector of the state authorized to vote at that box, the inspector shall then
give the person one ballot on the stub of which the inspector shall write or shall have already
written his or her name or initials. If the person's name does not appear on the list of qualified
voters for that ward or box, the person may not vote except by provisional ballot. (b) In
cities of more than 3,000 inhabitants, each elector on receiving a ballot shall forthwith
and without leaving the polling place retire alone to one of the booths or compartments provided
for that purpose and there prepare the ballot in the manner...
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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority
of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding
of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective
precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector,
to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number
of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent
of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county
shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county
for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or
voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total
number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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