§ 61-24-03 — Election of directors of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District

North Dakota § 61-24-03

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 61: Waters
• Ch. 61-24: Garrison Diversion Conservancy District

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A director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District must be nominated and elected in
each county in the district. Any person who is a resident and qualified elector of the county who
aspires to the office of director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District shall, before
four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before any primary election preceding a general election at
which a director of the district is to be elected, present to the county auditor a petition giving that

person's name, post-office address, the title of the office "Director of the Garrison Diversion
Conservancy District", and containing the signatures of not less than fifty nor more than three
hundred qualified electors of the county to which each signer has added the signer's residence
with street number, if any, and the date of signing.
The petition must be accompanied by an affidavit substantially as follows:
State of North Dakota )
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County of ___________)
I, ___________, being sworn, say that I reside in the county of _______________ and
State of North Dakota; that I am a qualified elector therein; that I am a candidate for
nomination to the office of director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District to be
chosen at the primary election to be held on _____________, ______, and I request that
my name be printed upon the no-party primary election ballot as provided by law, as a
candidate for the office.
______________________________
Subscribed and sworn to before me on _____________, ______.
______________________________
Notary Public
Upon receipt of the petition, the county auditor shall without fee place the name of the
aspirant on the no-party primary election ballot as a candidate for the aforesaid office of director.
The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes if more than two are running are
nominated.
The names of the candidates so nominated at the primary election must be placed on the
no-party ballot at the ensuing general election and the candidate receiving the highest number
of votes is elected.
At the primary and general elections, votes must be canvassed, returned certified, and
certificates of nomination and election issued in the manner provided by law for the nomination
and election of county officers.