2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 115 Election Authorities and Conduct of Elections
Section 115.619. Composition of legislative, senatorial, congressional and judicial district committees.

115.619. 1. The membership of a legislative district committee shall consist of all county committee members within the legislative district, except as provided in subsections 4 and 5 of this section. In all counties of this state which are wholly contained within a legislative district, or in which there are two or more whole legislative districts, or one whole legislative district and part of another legislative district, or parts of two or more legislative districts, there shall be elected from the membership of each legislative district committee a chairman and a vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man, and each legislative district at the same time shall elect a secretary and a treasurer, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man, but who may or may not be members of the legislative district committee. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and for weighted or fractional voting.

2. If a legislative district and a county are coextensive, the chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer of the county committee shall be the chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer of the legislative committee.

3. Except as provided in subsections 4 and 5 of this section, the congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee shall consist of the chairman and vice chairman of each of the legislative districts in the congressional, senatorial, or judicial districts and the chairman and vice chairman of each of the county committees within the districts. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and may provide for weighted or fractional voting.

4. The congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee of a district coextensive with one county shall be the county committee.

5. The congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee of a district which is composed in whole or in part of a part of a city or part of a county shall consist of the ward or township committeemen and committeewomen from such wards or townships included in whole or in part in such part of a city or part of a county forming the whole or a part of such district. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and may provide for weighted or fractional voting.

(L. 1977 H.B. 101 14.040, A.L. 1988 H.B. 933, et al., A.L. 1990 S.B. 862, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132)

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