North Dakota Code 40-21-02 – City elections – When held – Notice – Polls – Agreements with counties – Judges and inspectors
Biennial municipal elections must be held on the second Tuesday in June in each even-numbered year.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 40-21-02
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
1. Thirty days before the filing deadline for candidate names to be printed on the ballot, an official notice of this deadline along with a list of the offices to appear on the ballot must be published in the official newspaper of the city as provided by section 40-01-09.
2. Ten days’ notice of the time and place of the election and of the offices to be filled at the election must be given by the city auditor by publication in the official newspaper of the city as provided by section 40-01-09.
3. The governing body of a city shall enter into an agreement with the governing body of the county or counties in which the city lies concerning the use of a single canvassing board, the sharing of election personnel, the printing of election materials, the publishing of legal notices, and the apportioning of election expenses.
4. For city elections that are not held under an agreement with any county, the governing body of the city shall appoint one inspector and two judges of election for each polling place in the city at least ten days before the election is held and the polls must be opened and closed as provided for the opening and closing of polls at statewide elections. In voting precincts in which over three hundred votes are cast in any previous election, the governing body may appoint two election clerks for each polling place. For a city election that is not held under an agreement with any county in a precinct in which seventy-five or fewer votes were cast in the last city election, the governing body of the city may appoint one inspector and one judge for each polling place.
5. When a city enters into an agreement with the county to hold the city election in conjunction with the county election, the deadline for giving notice of the city election along with the offices to be filled at the election may be adjusted in order to meet the publishing requirements of the county. Each city governing body that enters into an agreement with the county must notify the county auditor, in writing, immediately after the candidate filing deadline on the sixty-fourth day before the election of the offices to be filled at the election and any measures to appear on the ballot.