§13-3  Election of members.  (a) 
Members of the board of education shall be nominated at a primary election and
elected at the general election.  Except as otherwise provided by this chapter,
the candidates for the board of education shall be elected in the manner
prescribed by this title.



(1)  Nomination papers, preparation of.  The chief
election officer shall prepare nomination papers in such a manner that a
candidate desiring to file for election to the board of education shall be able
to specify whether the candidate is seeking a seat requiring residency in a
particular departmental school district or a seat without such residency
requirement.



(2)  Ballot.  The school board ballot shall be
prepared in such a manner as to afford every voter eligible to vote in a school
board district race the opportunity to vote for each and every candidate
seeking election from that school board district.



The school board ballot shall contain
the names of all board candidates arranged alphabetically in a nonpartisan
manner; provided that the names of candidates seeking seats requiring residency
in a particular departmental school district shall be grouped alphabetically
according to departmental school districts.



(3)  Primary election.  Two candidates receiving the most
votes for each available seat shall be nominated for the general election.  If,
after the close of filing of nomination papers, there are only two qualified
candidates for any seat requiring residency in a particular departmental school
district, the chief election officer shall declare those two candidates duly
nominated for the general election.  The names of those two candidates shall
not appear on the primary election ballot.



(4)  General election.  Each voter in the general
election shall be entitled to receive the school board ballot and to vote for
the number of seats available in the respective school board districts.



(b)  In the event that there is only one
qualified candidate for any seat requiring residency in a particular
departmental school district, after the close of filing of nomination papers,
the chief election officer shall declare such candidate to be duly and legally
elected.  In the event that the number of qualified candidates for seats
without such residency requirement is equal to or less than the number of such
seats to be filled, after the close of filing of nomination papers, the chief
election officer shall declare such candidates to be duly and legally elected.
[L 1970, c 26, pt of §2; am L 1973, c 217, §3; am L 1979, c 125, §1(3); am L
1980, c 264, §3(a); gen ch 1985; am L 1990, c 212, §2; am L 1996, c 38, §1]