1.Regular elections held by the merged area for the election of members of the board
of directors as required by section 260C.11 or for any other matter authorized by law and
designated for election by the board of directors of the merged area shall be held on the date
of the school election as fixed by section 277.1. However, elections held for the imposition,
rate increase, or discontinuance of the twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand dollars of
assessed valuation levy authorized in section 260C.22 shall be held either on the date of the
school election as fixed by section 277.1 or at a special election held on the second Tuesday
in September of the even-numbered year. The election notice shall be made a part of the
local school election notice published as provided in section 49.53
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1. Regular elections held by the merged area for the election of members of the board
of directors as required by section 260C.11 or for any other matter authorized by law and
designated for election by the board of directors of the merged area shall be held on the date
of the school election as fixed by section 277.1. However, elections held for the imposition,
rate increase, or discontinuance of the twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand dollars of
assessed valuation levy authorized in section 260C.22 shall be held either on the date of the
school election as fixed by section 277.1 or at a special election held on the second Tuesday
in September of the even-numbered year. The election notice shall be made a part of the
local school election notice published as provided in section 49.53 in each local school district
where voting is to occur in the merged area election and the election shall be conducted by
the county commissioner of elections pursuant to chapters 39 through 53 and section 277.20.
2. A candidate for member of the board of directors of a merged area shall be nominated
by a petition signed by not less than fifty eligible electors of the director district from which
the member is to be elected. The petition shall state the number of the director district from
which the candidate seeks election, and the candidate’s name and status as an eligible elector
of the director district. Signers of the petition, in addition to signing their names, shall show
their residence, including street and number if any, the school district in which they reside,
and the date they signed the petition. A person may sign nomination petitions for more than
one candidate for the same office, and the signature is not invalid solely because the person
signed nomination petitions for one or more other candidates for the office. The petition
shall include the affidavit of the candidate being nominated, stating the candidate’s name
and residence, and that the individual is a candidate, is eligible for the office sought, and if
elected will qualify for the office.
3. Nomination papers on behalf of candidates for member of the board of directors of a
merged area shall be filed with the secretary of the board not earlier than seventy-one days
nor later than 5:00 p.m. on the forty-seventh day prior to the election at which members of
the board are to be elected. On the day following the last day on which nomination petitions
can be filed, and no later than 5:00 p.m. on that day, the secretary shall deliver all nomination
petitionssofiled, togetherwiththetextofanypublicmeasurebeingsubmittedbytheboardof
directors to the electorate, to the merged area’s controlling county commissioner of elections
under section 47.2. That controlling commissioner shall certify the names of candidates, and
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the text and summary of any public measure being submitted to the electorate, to all county
commissioners of elections in the merged area by the forty-second day prior to the election.
4. a. Objections to the legal sufficiency of a nomination petition or to the eligibility of a
candidate may be filed by any person who would have the right to vote for a candidate for
the office in question.
b. Theobjectionmustbefiledwiththesecretaryoftheboardatleastforty-twodaysbefore
the day of the election at which members of the board are elected. When objections are filed,
noticeshallimmediatelybegiventothecandidateaffected,addressedtothecandidate’splace
of residence as given on the candidate’s affidavit, stating that objections have been made
to the legal sufficiency of the petition or to the eligibility of the candidate, and also stating
the time and place the objections will be considered. The board secretary shall also attempt
to notify the candidate by telephone if the candidate provided a telephone number on the
candidate’s affidavit.
c. Objections shall be considered not later than two working days following the receipt
of the objections by the president of the board of directors, the secretary of the board, and
one additional director of the board chosen by ballot. If objections have been filed to the
nominations of either of the directors, that director shall not pass on the objection. The
director’s place shall be filled by a member of the board of directors against whom no
objection exists. The replacement shall be chosen by ballot.
5. The votes cast in the election shall be canvassed and abstracts of the votes cast shall
be certified as required by section 277.20. In each county whose commissioner of elections
is the controlling commissioner for a merged area under section 47.2, the county board of
supervisors shall convene on the second Tuesday after the day of the election to canvass the
abstracts of votes cast from each county in the merged area, and declare the results of the
voting. The commissioner shall at once issue certificates of election to each person declared
elected, and shall certify to the merged area board in substantially the manner prescribed by
section 50.27 the result of the voting on any public question submitted to the voters of the
merged area. Members elected to the board of directors of a merged area shall qualify by
taking the oath of office prescribed in section 277.28.