2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 23-149 — Commissioners; number; petition to change; election; ballot; form.

Section 23-149
Commissioners; number; petition to change; election; ballot; form.

Whenever in counties not under township organization a petition or petitions for the submission of the question regarding the number of commissioners the county will have, signed by not less than two hundred registered voters of the county voting at the last general election, are filed in the office of the county clerk or election commissioner not less than seventy days before the date of any general election, the county clerk or election commissioner shall cause the question to be submitted to the voters of the county at such election and give notice thereof in the general notice of such election. The forms of ballots shall be respectively: For three commissioners and For five commissioners; and the same shall be printed upon the regular ballots cast for officers voted for at such election and shall be counted and canvassed in the same manner. If a majority of votes cast at the election favor the proposition For five commissioners, thereafter the county shall have five commissioners, and if a majority of the ballots cast at the election favor the proposition For three commissioners, thereafter the county shall have three commissioners.

Source:

Laws 1891, c. 21, § 1, p. 226

Laws 1903, c. 30, § 1, p. 277

R.S.1913, § 978

Laws 1917, c. 18, § 1, p. 78

Laws 1919, c. 69, § 1, p. 183

C.S.1922, § 878

C.S.1929, § 26-132

R.S.1943, § 23-149

Laws 1969, c. 259, § 1, p. 958

Laws 1973, LB 75, § 1

Laws 1991, LB 789, § 5

Annotations:

Results of election required change in number of commissioner districts. Ludwig v. Board of County Commissioners of Sarpy County, 170 Neb. 600, 103 N.W.2d 838 (1960).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska