As Amended
SEC. 23-15-211. Board of election commissioners and registrar; elections training seminar; certification of seminar participants; compensation of commissioners attending seminar.
(1) There shall be a State Board of Election Commissioners to consist of the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, any two (2) of whom may perform the duties required of the board; a board of election commissioners in each county to consist of five (5) persons who are electors in the county in which they are to act; and a registrar in each county who shall be the clerk of the circuit court, unless he shall be shown to be an improper person to register the names of the electors therein.
(2) The board of supervisors of each county shall pay members of the county election commissioners for attending training events a per diem in the amount provided in Section 23-15-153; however, such per diem shall not be paid to an election commissioner for more than six (6) days of training per year and shall only be paid to election commissioners who actually attend and complete a training event and obtain a training certificate.
(3) Included in this six (6) days shall be an elections seminar, conducted and sponsored by the Secretary of State. Election commissioners and chairpersons of each political party executive committee or their designee shall be required to attend.
(4) Each participant shall receive a certificate from the Secretary of State indicating that the named participant has received the elections training seminar instruction and that each participant is fully qualified to conduct an election.
SOURCES: Derived from 1972 Code Sec. 23-5-1 [Codes, 1871, Secs. 340 et seq.; 1880, Sec. 121; 1892, Sec. 3601; 1906, Sec. 4107; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6741; 1930, Sec. 6176; 1942, Sec. 3204; Laws, 1964, 1st Ex Sess ch. 30; 1968 ch. 568, Sec. 1; 1970, ch. 509, Sec. 1; Repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 335]; En, Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 54; 1990, ch. 325, Sec. 1, eff from and after June 18, 1990 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment).