2016 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 22 - School Election Law
Section 1-22-3 - School district elections; qualifications of candidates.
1-22-3. School district elections; qualifications of candidates.
A. A school district election shall be held in each school district to elect qualified persons to membership on a board. No person shall become a candidate for membership on a board unless the person's record of voter registration shows that the person is a qualified elector of the state, physically resides in the school district in which the person is a candidate and was registered to vote in the district on the date the board's proclamation calling a regular school district election is filed in the office of the county clerk.
B. A regular school district election shall be held in each school district on the first Tuesday in February of each odd-numbered year.
C. An election on a ballot question held at any time other than the date for the regular school district election shall be a special school district election called, conducted and canvassed as provided in the Election Code.
D. Except as otherwise provided in the School Election Law, school district elections shall be called, conducted and canvassed as provided in the Election Code.
History: 1978 Comp., 1-22-3, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 168, 5; 1997, ch. 252, 1; 2015, ch. 145, 80.
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