§ 25-4323 — Same; petition; filing, when; limitations

Kansas § 25-4323

• Jurisdiction: Kansas
• Ch. 25: ELECTIONS
• Art. 43: RECALL OF ELECTED OFFICIALS

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(a) No petition for recall of a local officer may be filed during the first one hundred and twenty (120) days of the term of office of the local officer sought to be recalled or within less than one hundred and eighty (180) days of the termination of the term of office of the local officer sought to be recalled.
(b) Only one recall election may be held to recall a particular local officer in a single term of office, and no petition for a second recall election within a single term shall be approved or circulated.
(c) The number of local officers serving on the same governing body which may be subject to recall at the same time shall not exceed a majority of the members of the governing body minus one, and no petition for recall of a local officer serving on a governing body shall be approved if petitions for the recall of other local officers serving on the same governing body have been properly filed and elections thereon have not been held and the number of such other local officers equals a majority of the members of the governing body minus one.

Legislative History

L. 1976, ch. 178, § 23; L. 1978, ch. 147, § 6; April 25.