2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 50 - CANVASS OF VOTES
50.29 - CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION.

        50.29  CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION.
         1.  When any person is thus declared elected, there shall be
      delivered to that person a certificate of election, under the
      official seal of the county, in substance as follows:
               STATE OF IOWA             )
               ........ County.          )


         At an election held in said county on the ... day of .....
      (month), ... (year), ...... (candidate's name) was elected to the
      office of ...... for the term of ...  years from the ... day of .....
      (month), ... (year) [if elected to fill a vacancy, for the residue of
      the term ending on the ... day of ..... (month), ... (year)], and
      until a successor is elected and qualified.
                             .............,
                             President of Board of Canvassers.
                   Witness,  .............,
                             County Commissioner of Elections
                               (clerk).


         2.  The certificate of election is presumptive evidence of the
      person's election and qualification.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C51, § 277; R60, § 511, 514; C73, § 641; C97, § 1155; C24, 27,
      31, 35, 39, § 868; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
      81, § 50.29] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         87 Acts, ch 115, §9; 2000 Acts, ch 1058, §9; 2008 Acts, ch 1032,
      §201; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §26
         Referred to in § 331.383

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