Section 115.073

Title IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 115

Effective - 28 Aug 2003   

  115.073.  Election costs, how paid (Clay, Platte and Jackson counties). — 1.  In any county containing a portion but not the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants, all general expenses related to the conduct of elections and the registration of voters shall be paid proportionally from the general revenue of the city and the general revenue of the county.  The city shall pay such proportion as its population within the county is to the total population of the county as determined by the last preceding federal decennial census.  The annual general operating expenditures from the general revenue funds of the city and any county of the first classification with more than seventy-three thousand seven hundred but less than seventy-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants or any city located within such county shall be subject to the budgeting approval of the governing body of the county.

  2.  In any county containing a portion but not the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants, the salaries of election judges at all county and state primary, general and special elections shall be paid from the general revenue of the county, unless the city submits a question or candidate at the election, in which case the salaries of election judges shall be paid proportionally from the general revenue of the city and the general revenue of the county as provided in subsection 1 of this section.

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(L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 2.535, A.L. 2003 H.B. 511)