The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-25
THE NEW ELECTION LAW.
HOW 1T AFFECTS THE ELECTION
OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
No Registration. Necessary Cor the
Election in Ju1y-0rgsnizntion OF
New school Boards.

County Superintendent of Schools
Van Colt says any paper can win
glory and fame by telling the people
of the state something about the new
election law and how it affects the
coming election of school trustees.
Copies of the school law have been
sent throughout the state, but as IN
cases of many of the acts passed By
the last legislature, there are several
conflicting provisions at least between
the school law and the general election
law.
The election of school trustees
throughout the state takes place July
IS. Nc registration is necessary for
this election. for the lawmakers sN-
pressly provided that all elections held
prior to September no registration OF
voters should be necessary. Article
5, section 40, Of the school law is apt
to bewilder trustees, for it says: 1T
shall be the duty of the county clerk
to furnish the board of trustees of the
district at least five days previous TO
the day of election for school trustees,
a certified copy of the registration lisf,
showing the names of the registered
voters residing in the precincts COW
cred in whole or in part by such school
district
The above provision applies to all
elections held after September, 1896,
but not to the coming election ON
July Is.
The qualifications of voters of this
election are provided as follows:
Section 49-Every citizen of the Uni
ted States of the age of q years or
over who has been resident of the
state or territory of Utah for one year,
of the county four months, and of the
school district for sixty days, both inn
mediately preceding the day on which
any meeting is held for the purpose
of voting ON the question of levying
special tax or issuing bonds for any
school district. or for selecting a
school house site, and who has paid a
property tax in any such district dur
ing the preceding year. shall be en-
titled to vote at any such meeting.
A great many are under the impress
sion that the change of trustees does
not take place until January 1. This
is erroneous. The law says twenty
days after the election. On this point,
section AZ, of article 5, of the school
law will De of interest:
THE clerk of the school board shall,
within five days after such election,
furnish each person with a certificate
of election, a copy of which, with the
oath OF Office, must be forwarded inn
mediately to the county superinten-
dent"
And relative to the organization of
the new board section 43 reads:
1.-The trustees, or any two Of them,
whose official bonds have been APP
proved, shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business. They shall
meet and organize within twenty days
after their election. by appointing one
of their number chairman, another
clerk and another treasurer, and shall
at once notify the county superinten-
dent of such organization. Said trus-
tees, when thus organized. shall con-
stitute the district school board. The
treasurer shall give bond to the dis
trict with sufficient sureties and for a
sufficient amount to be approved by
the board of trustees and filed with
the county clerk