2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.53 - PUBLICATION OF BALLOT AND NOTICE.

        49.53  PUBLICATION OF BALLOT AND NOTICE.
         1.  The commissioner shall not less than four nor more than twenty
      days before the day of each election, except those for which
      different publication requirements are prescribed by law, publish
      notice of the election.  The notice shall contain a facsimile of the
      portion of the ballot containing the first rotation as prescribed by
      section 49.31, subsection 2, and shall show the names of all
      candidates or nominees and the office each seeks, and all public
      questions, to be voted upon at the election.  The sample ballot
      published as a part of the notice may at the discretion of the
      commissioner be reduced in size relative to the actual ballot but
      such reduction shall not cause upper case letters appearing in
      candidates' names or in summaries of public measures on the published
      sample ballot to be less than nine point type.  The notice shall also
      state the date of the election, the hours the polls will be open, the
      location of each polling place at which voting is to occur in the
      election, and the names of the precincts voting at each polling
      place, but the statement need not set forth any fact which is
      apparent from the portion of the ballot appearing as a part of the
      same notice.  The notice shall include the full text of all public
      measures to be voted upon at the election.
         2.  The notice shall be published in at least one newspaper, as
      defined in section 618.3, which is published in the county or other
      political subdivision in which the election is to occur or, if no
      newspaper is published there, in at least one newspaper of
      substantial circulation in the county or political subdivision.  For
      the general election or the primary election the foregoing notice
      shall be published in at least two newspapers published in the
      county.  However, if there is only one newspaper published in the
      county, publication in one newspaper shall be sufficient.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 1110; R60, § 463, 2027, 2030; C73, § 578, 1718, 1719; C97,
      § 1062, 1112, 2746, 2750, 2751, 2755; S13, § 1087-a12, 2750, 2755;
      C24, § 508, 550, 551, 790, 4195, 4197, 4208; C27, § 508, 550, 551,
      790, 4195, 4197, 4208, 4211-b1, 4216-b3; C31, 35, § 508, 550, 551,
      590, 4216-c3; C39, § 508, 550, 551, 790, 4216.03; C46, 50, 54, §
      39.5, 43.23, 43.24, 49.72, 277.3; C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 39.5, 43.23,
      43.24, 43.29, 49.72, 277.3; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.53] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         87 Acts, ch 221, § 15; 89 Acts, ch 136, §40; 93 Acts, ch 143, §
      17; 98 Acts, ch 1123, § 5; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §33, 115; 2007 Acts,
      ch 190, §2; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §29
         Referred to in § 28A.6, 39.6, 49.54, 49.73, 52.35, 260C.15,
      260C.39, 275.35, 296.4, 298.18, 331.305, 346.27, 364.2, 368.3,
      368.19, 384.26, 394.2
         Publication of ballot, city elections, § 376.5