IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
278.2 - SUBMISSION OF PROPOSITION.
278.2 SUBMISSION OF PROPOSITION.
1. The board may, and upon the written request of one hundred
eligible electors or a number of electors which equals thirty percent
of the number of electors who voted in the last regular school board
election, whichever number is greater, shall, direct the county
commissioner of elections to provide in the notice of the regular
election for the submission of any proposition authorized by law to
the voters. When the board has directed the commissioner to submit
to the voters a proposition authorized by section 278.1, subsection
1, paragraph "g" or "h", it shall not thereafter direct the
commissioner to submit at the same election any other proposition
under either of those paragraphs.
2. Petitions filed under this section shall be filed with the
secretary of the school board at least seventy-five days before the
date of the regular school election, if the question is to be
included on the ballot at that election. The petition shall include
the signatures of the petitioners, a statement of their place of
residence, and the date on which they signed the petition. Section History: Early Form
[R60, § 2028; C97, § 2749; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4218; C46,
50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 278.2] Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 30, §1; 89 Acts, ch 136, §64; 90 Acts, ch 1238, § 36;
2008 Acts, ch 1115, §20, 21
Referred to in § 275.36