As Amended
SEC. 37-7-227. Election of consolidated or consolidated line school district trustees; ballot; determination of results; runoffs.
The county election commissioners shall indicate on the ballot which of the persons whose names appear thereon are candidates for a full term, and which of such persons, if any, are candidates for an unexpired term or terms. The candidate who receives a majority of the votes cast, either for a full term or for an unexpired term or terms, as indicated on the ballot, shall be declared elected, and the person or persons elected to a full term shall assume the duties of his office on the first day of January of the year following such election. The person or persons elected to an unexpired term(s) shall assume office immediately. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast at such election, a runoff shall be held in the same manner on the third Tuesday after the first Monday in November following such election between the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes upon such first ballot.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 6328-11.4; Laws, 1960, ch. 304, Sec. 2; 1981, ch. 409, Sec. 8, eff from and after July 31, 1981 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment of this section).