44.11 Vacancies filled.
If a candidate named under this chapter withdraws or dies before the deadline established in section 44.9, declines a nomination, or if a certificate of nomination is held insufficient or inoperative by the officer with whom it is required to be filed, or in case any objection made to a certificate of nomination, or to the eligibility of any candidate named in the certificate, is sustained by the board appointed to determine such questions, the vacancy or vacancies may be filled by the convention, or caucus, or in such manner as such convention or caucus has previously provided. The vacancy or vacancies shall be filled not less than seventy-six days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the state commissioner or not less than seventy-one days for nominations filed under section 44.4, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, not less than sixty-nine days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the commissioner, not less than forty-two days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed in the office of the school board secretary, and not less than forty-two days before the election in the case of nominations required to be filed with the commissioner for city elections.
[C97, §1102; C24, §653; C27, 31, 35, §655-a11; C39, §655.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §44.11]
89 Acts, ch 136, §26; 97 Acts, ch 170, §8; 2014 Acts, ch 1101, §6; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §73; 2017 Acts, ch 155, §14, 44; 2021 Acts, ch 147, §19, 54
Referred to in §44.14, 44.17
2021 amendment effective January 1, 2022; 2021 Acts, ch 147, §54
Section amended
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Chapter 44 - NOMINATIONS BY NONPARTY POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
Section 44.1 - Nonparty political organizations.
Section 44.2 - Nominations certified.
Section 44.4 - Nominations and objections — time and place of filing.
Section 44.5 - Notice of objections.
Section 44.6 - Hearing before state commissioner.
Section 44.7 - Hearing before commissioner.
Section 44.8 - Hearing before mayor.
Section 44.10 - Effect of withdrawal.
Section 44.11 - Vacancies filled.
Section 44.12 - Insufficient time for convention.
Section 44.13 - Certificates in matter of vacancies.
Section 44.14 - Filing of certificates.
Section 44.15 - Presumption of validity.
Section 44.16 - Return of papers — additions not allowed.