US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  34
                                  ELECTIONS
                                  CHAPTER 17
                               RECALL ELECTIONS
    34-1704.  PRINTING OF PETITION AND SHEETS FOR SIGNATURES -- TIME LIMITS
FOR PERFECTING PETITION. (1) Before or at the time of beginning to circulate
any petition for the recall of any officer subject to recall, the person or
persons, organization or organizations under whose authority the recall
petition is to be circulated, shall send or deliver to the secretary of state,
county clerk, or city clerk, as the case may be, a copy of a prospective
petition duly signed by at least twenty (20) electors eligible to sign such
petition. The receiving officer shall immediately examine the petition and
specify the form and kind and size of paper on which the petition shall be
printed and circulated for further signatures. All petitions and signature
sheets for recall shall be printed on a good quality bond or ledger paper of
standardized size in substantial conformance within the provisions of section
34-1703, Idaho Code. To every sheet of petitioners' signatures shall be
attached a full and correct copy of the recall petition.
    (2)  The secretary of state, county clerk, or city clerk, as the case may
be, shall indicate in writing on the prospective recall petition that he has
approved it as to form and the date of such approval. Upon approval as to
form, the secretary of state, county clerk, or city clerk, shall inform the
person or persons, organization or organizations under whose authority the
recall petition is to be circulated, in writing, that the petition must be
perfected with the required number of certified signatures within seventy-five
(75) days following the date of approval as to form. Signatures on the
prospective petition shall not be counted toward the required number of
certified signatures. Any petition that has not been perfected with the
required number of certified signatures within the seventy-five (75) days
allowed shall be declared null and void ab initio in its entirety.