Other LanguagesWhere a city decides to change its form of government from a commission to the council-manager form a council is elected at the time of the special election on the proposition. The councilmen-elect assume office on the 30th day following issuance of certificates of election and serve an abbreviated term until the councilmen elected at the next regular municipal election take office.
Each election to be considered separately for purposes of closing registration and giving notice thereof.
Whether the commissioners of a city of the third class operating under a commission form of government have authority to expend municipal funds in submitting to the voters the question of advancement to the rank of first class cities under charter government for an advisory vote, is a proper subject to be covered by administrative rule to be issued by the secretary of state under RCW 29.04.080.
County Auditor, as ex-officio supervisor of elections, has sole jurisdiction to conduct drainage district elections in Class A and first class counties.
Elections for park and recreation district commissioners are to be held biennially in conjunction with the general election in November.
RCW 29.21.060 controls time for filing and withdrawing declaration of candidacy in second and third class school districts.
(1) A candidate, in filing for office, has the right to have printed on the ballot any name by which he is commonly known in the community. (2) A county auditor has no authority to reject a declaration of candidacy.
(1) The notice provision of the 1949 election law has no application to municipal elections to authorize excess levies.(2) Under the 1949 election law the county auditor, as supervisor of elections, has jurisdiction to conduct municipal elections in Class A and first class counties; county canvassing board has the duty of canvassing such election. In all other counties, local municipal officers have exclusive jurisdiction to conduct and canvas city and town elections.
1. A city of the first class newly incorporated from previously unincorporated territory may validly provide in its city charter for partisan elections, regardless of whether the city adopted a council-manager form of government. 2. Political parties represented at such partisan primary elections are those whose candidates received ten per cent of the total vote cast at the last preceding general election in the state.
Date and jurisdiction of joint school district elections is determined by use of statutory formula for determining to which one of several counties the district belongs.