As Amended
SEC. 23-15-355. Payment of ballot expenses.
Ballots in all elections shall be printed and distributed at public expense and shall be known as "official ballots." The expense of printing such ballots shall be paid out of the county treasury, except that in municipal elections such expenses shall be paid by the respective cities, towns and villages. In the case of the statewide special election for the selection of the official state flag provided for in Section 1 of this act, the provisions of this section regarding payment of the expenses of printing the official ballots shall be governed by the provisions of Section 1(2) of this act.
SOURCES: Derived from 1972 Code § 23-5-123 [Codes, 1892, § 3650; Laws, 1906, § 4157; Hemingway's 1917, § 6791; Laws, 1930, § 6226; Laws, 1942, § 3255; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 335]; en, Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 107; Laws, 2001, ch. 301, § 4, HB 524, eff from and after February 7, 2001 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section.)
PREVIOUS VERSION: Pre-2001