2010 Wyoming Statutes
Title 22 - Elections
Chapter 21 - Bond Elections

CHAPTER 21 - BOND ELECTIONS

 

ARTICLE 1 - POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS

 

22-21-101. Political Subdivision Bond Election Law.

 

This chapter including W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112, shall be known as the "Political Subdivision Bond Election Law," and each election required by law to authorize the issuance of bonds shall be conducted under the provisions hereof, except that statewide bond elections shall be conducted as provided in W.S. 22-21-201.

 

22-21-102. Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 100, 5.

 

22-21-103. How bond question to be submitted to electors; contents.

 

Each bond question shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the political subdivision. Every bond election shall be held on the same day as a primary election or a general election, or on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in May or November, or on the Tuesday next following the third Monday in August. If calling the election in May, the body political subdivision shall by March 1, provide written notification to the county clerk, specifying the date of the election and the bond question. If the political subdivision specifies the date of the election to be a primary or general statewide or other August or November election, then the political subdivision shall provide notice to the county clerk not less than one hundred ten (110) days before the election if for a primary or other August election, and not less than seventy (70) days before the election, if for a general or other November election. The bond question shall state the purpose of the bonds, the maximum principal amount thereof, the maximum number of years allowed for the indebtedness and the maximum rate of interest to be paid thereon. The secretary of state may promulgate reasonable rules for conducting bond elections where the election is not held at the same time as the general or primary election.

 

22-21-104. Publication or posting of election notice; contents.

 

The county clerk shall publish notice of the election at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty (40) days before the election. If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision, notice shall be posted at each polling place in the political subdivision not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty (40) days before the election. Any notice of election hereunder shall specify the name of the political subdivision, the date, time and place of election, the question or questions to be submitted, and the fact that only qualified electors of the political subdivision may vote thereon. If a bond election is being held within a political subdivision at the same time and place as a regular or other election, the notice of bond election may, at the discretion of the county clerk, be combined with and given in the same manner as the notice of the regular or other election in such political subdivision.

 

22-21-105. Election districts.

 

The political subdivision may be divided by the governing body into convenient subdivisions for the purpose of such election or the governing body may adopt the election districts and precincts established for general or other elections.

 

22-21-106. Errors.

 

No error in any election on the creation of an indebtedness shall invalidate the election, unless it is determined that the error would change the result.

 

22-21-107. Contests; procedure.

 

Any five (5) qualified electors of the political subdivision may contest an election on the question of the creation of an indebtedness upon filing in the district court of any county in which the political subdivision is wholly or partially located, within fourteen (14) days after the result of the election shall have been determined, a petition alleging an error that would change the result of the election, in like form as in other cases of contested elections in the district court. The political subdivision shall be made defendant, and process shall be served upon the clerk of the governing body or other chief clerical officer as in other civil actions. No civil action contesting the results of such an election or alleging election errors may be commenced after the expiration of such fourteen (14) day period.

 

22-21-108. Who is entitled to vote.

 

Any qualified elector in the political subdivision shall be entitled to vote on the bond question in person or by absentee ballot, in the precinct in which he is registered, as provided by law.

 

22-21-109. Supplies; regulations; costs.

 

The county clerk may utilize voting machines or electronic voting systems at any bond election and may prescribe the form of ballot label, the duties of election officials, and other reasonable regulations pertaining thereto. The political subdivision holding the bond election shall pay the actual costs of the election or an equitably proportioned share of a concurrent election, as determined by the county clerk.

 

22-21-110. Ballot canvass; results certified; declaration; effect of defeat.

 

Immediately after the closing of the polls, the counting board shall proceed to count the ballots. The results disclosed by the count shall be certified by the counting board to the clerk of the political subdivision. If the majority of the ballots cast on a bond question is in favor of the issuance of the bonds, the proposal shall be approved, and the governing body of the political subdivision, in the manner provided by law, shall then proceed to declare the results of said election, and complete the printing, execution, advertising, and sale of the bonds, but if the majority is opposed to such issuance, the proposal to issue bonds for the same general purpose shall not again be submitted to election within a period of twelve (12) months or as otherwise provided by law.

 

22-21-111. Authority granted.

 

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing any type of project or the issuance of bonds for any purpose not otherwise authorized by the laws specifically applicable to the political subdivision in question.

 

22-21-112. Effect on prior bond elections.

 

This act shall have no effect on any bond election heretofore conducted, and any bonds authorized at such an election which have not been delivered may be sold and delivered as if this act had not been adopted.

 

ARTICLE 2 - STATE

 

22-21-201. State bond elections.

 

 

(a) A statewide bond election may be held on the same days as authorized for bond elections under W.S. 22-21-103. A statewide bond election shall be conducted as nearly as possible in the same manner as a general election.

 

(b) The proclamation of such an election shall be published as provided in W.S. 22-2-109. No other notice of such election need be published.

 

(c) Precincts may be consolidated for the purpose of any special election held under this section at the discretion of the county clerk. Three (3) judges shall be appointed for the polling place in each precinct in such special elections, and additional judges may be appointed if deemed necessary by the county clerk.

 

(d) The question submitted at such a bond election shall be deemed adopted, if a majority of the electors voting thereon approve the proposition.