Assembly Bill No. 276–Committee on Government Affairs

 

(On Behalf of Paradise Democratic Club)

 

March 5, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics

 

SUMMARY—Converts offices of mayor and city councilmen to partisan offices. (BDR 24‑1126)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to elections; providing in skeleton form for the conversion of the offices of mayor and city councilmen to partisan offices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 293.195 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    293.195  1.  Judicial offices, school offices, the office of county

1-3  sheriff, the board of regents of the University of Nevada, city and town

1-4  officers[,] except for mayors and city councilmen, the state board of

1-5  education and members of boards of hospital trustees of public hospitals

1-6  are hereby designated nonpartisan offices.

1-7    2.  No words designating the party affiliation of a candidate for

1-8  nonpartisan offices may be printed upon the ballot.

 

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