2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.14 - SUBSTITUTE PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIALS.

        49.14  SUBSTITUTE PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIALS.
         1.  The commissioner may appoint substitute precinct election
      officials as alternates for election board members.  The
      responsibilities and duties of a precinct election official, other
      than the chairperson, present at the time the polling place was
      opened on the day of an election may be assumed at any later time
      that day by a substitute appointed as an alternate.  The substitute
      shall serve either for the balance of that election day or for any
      shorter period of time the commissioner may designate.  At partisan
      elections, a substitute precinct election official assuming the
      duties of a precinct election official shall be a member of the same
      political party as the precinct election official whose duties are
      being assumed.
         2.  Substitute precinct election officials shall be appointed and
      shall serve in accordance with sections 49.12, 49.13, 49.15, and
      49.16, and shall receive compensation as provided by sections 49.19,
      49.20, and 49.125.  Upon arriving at the polling place and prior to
      performing any official duty, a substitute precinct election official
      shall take the oath required by section 49.75.
         3.  The commissioner shall not employ substitute precinct election
      officials in a partisan election unless:
         a.  The election board panel drawn up pursuant to section
      49.15 contains the names of a sufficient number of political party
      designees to permit appointment of both the regular precinct election
      officials and any substitute precinct election officials from that
      panel; or
         b.  The commissioner has informed the county chairpersons of
      the political parties referred to in section 49.13, subsection 2,
      thirty days prior to the date of the election, of intent to appoint
      substitute precinct election officials and has allowed ten days
      thereafter for the respective county chairpersons to provide
      additional names of persons from whom the substitute precinct
      election officials shall be appointed.  If a county chairperson fails
      to provide additional names after being so notified, the commissioner
      may appoint persons known to be members of the appropriate political
      party or parties.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S81, § 49.14; 81 Acts, ch 34, § 25] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2007 Acts, ch 59, §7, 19
         Referred to in § 39A.1