Arizona Laws 15-1442. Nominating petitions; election; returns; results; certificate of election; statement of contributions and expenditures
A. Candidates for the district board must file nominating petitions, conforming to section 16-314, with the appropriate county officer.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1442
- Community college: means an educational institution that is operated by a district board and that provides a program of not more than four years' training in the arts, sciences and humanities beyond the twelfth grade of the public or private high school course of study or vocational education, including terminal courses of a technical and vocational nature and basic adult education courses. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- District: means a community college district that is established pursuant to sections 15-1402 and 15-1403 or Section 15-1402. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- District board: means the community college district governing board. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- Governing board: means a body organized for the government and management of the schools within a school district or a county school superintendent in the conduct of an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind. See Arizona Laws 15-101
B. Members of the district board shall be elected at the time and place, and in the manner, of general elections as provided in title 16.
C. If only one person files a nominating petition or nomination paper for a write-in candidate for an election to fill a community college board office, the county school superintendent not earlier than one hundred five days before the election may cancel the election for the position and appoint the person who filed the nominating petition or nomination paper to fill the position. If no person files a nominating petition or nomination paper for a candidate or for a write-in candidate for an election to fill a community college board office, the county board of supervisors not earlier than one hundred five days before the election may cancel the election for that office and that office is deemed vacant and shall be filled as provided in section 15-1441. A person who is appointed pursuant to this subsection is fully vested with the powers and duties of the office as if elected to that office.
D. The county school superintendent and the chairman of the board of supervisors shall meet not later than on the fourteenth day following the election to canvass the returns in accordance with procedures for the canvass of returns in a general election. For any canvass conducted by the county school superintendent in November of an even-numbered year, the county school superintendent and the chairman of the board of supervisors shall conduct the canvass as part of the county’s general election canvass. The county school superintendent shall declare the results of the district board election, declare elected the person receiving the highest number of votes for each office to be filled and issue to that person a certificate of election.
E. All candidates for the office of community college district governing board member shall file with the clerk of the board of supervisors a statement of contributions and expenditures as provided in section 16-926.