20-20-204. Election notice. - Montana Statutes

     20-20-204. Election notice. (1) (a) When the trustees of a district call a school election, they shall give notice of the election not less than 20 days or more than 30 days before the day of the election by:
     (i) publication of the notice in a newspaper of general circulation if there is one in the district; and
     (ii) posting notices in three public places in the district, provided that in incorporated cities and towns, at least one notice must be posted at a public place in each ward or precinct.
     (b) Whenever, in the judgment of the trustees, the best interest of the district will be served by the supplemental publication of the school election notice in a radio or television broadcast, the trustees may cause that notification to be made.
     (2) The notice of a school election, unless otherwise required by law, must specify:
     (a) the date and polling places of the election;
     (b) the hours that the polling places will be open;
     (c) each proposition to be considered by the electorate;
     (d) if there are trustees to be elected, the number of positions subject to election and the length of term of each position; and
     (e) where and how absentee ballots may be obtained.
     (3) If more than one proposition is to be considered at the same school election, each proposition must be set apart and separately identified in the same notice or published in separate notices.

     History: En. 75-6409 by Sec. 145, Ch. 5, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6409; amd. Sec. 360, Ch. 571, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 372, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 144, L. 1997.