(1) (a) Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director in a school district in which fewer than one thousand students are enrolled shall file a nomination petition signed by at least twenty-five eligible electors from throughout the school district, regardless of the school district's plan of representation. Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director in a school district in which one thousand students or more are enrolled shall file a nomination petition signed by at least fifty eligible electors from throughout the school district, regardless of the school district's plan of representation. An eligible elector may sign as many petitions as candidates for whom that elector may vote.
(b) A person who desires to be a candidate for the office of school director may not circulate the nomination petition for signatures prior to ninety days before the election.
(c) The petition may designate or appoint on its face one or more eligible electors as a committee to fill vacancies in the nomination.
(2) The nomination petition must be filed no later than sixty-seven days before the election date.
(3) If a school district has an at-large method of representation and if terms of different lengths are to be filled at a district election, candidates must designate on the nomination petition the term for which they are running.
(4) A candidate for the office of school director shall not run as a candidate of any political party for that school directorship.
(5) The candidate for the office of school director shall have been a registered elector of the school district, as shown on the books of the county clerk and recorder, for at least twelve consecutive months prior to the date of the election.
Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 686, � 7, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: (2) amended, p. 1406, � 30, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1153, � 14, effective July 1. L. 95: (1) amended, p. 831, � 30, effective July 1. L. 98: (5) amended, p. 291, � 2, effective July 1. L. 99: (1) amended, p. 468, � 1, effective April 30; (2) amended, p. 765, � 26, effective May 20. L. 2006: (1) and (5) amended, p. 1024, � 6, effective May 25. L. 2017: (1)(c) added, (SB 17-209), ch. 234, p. 947, � 3, effective August 9.
1-4-804. Petitions for nominating nonpartisan special district directors. (Repealed)
Source: L. 92: Entire part R&RE, p. 687, � 7, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: Entire section amended, p. 1406, � 31, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended and (3) added, p. 1153, � 15, effective July 1. L. 96: (4) added, p. 1740, � 22, effective July 1. L. 99: Entire section repealed, p. 450, � 5, effective August 4.
1-4-805. Petitions for nominating municipal candidates in coordinated elections. Any person who desires to be a candidate for a municipal office in a coordinated election shall, in lieu of the requirements of this article, comply with the nominating petition procedure set forth in the Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965, article 10 of title 31, C.R.S.; except that part 11 of this article, concerning write-in candidate affidavits, shall apply in such municipal elections, and any nominating petition may be circulated and signed beginning on the ninety-first day prior to the election and shall be filed with the municipal clerk no later than the seventy-first day prior to the date of the election. The petition may be amended to correct or replace signatures that the clerk finds are not in apparent conformity with the requirements of the municipal election code at any time before the sixty-seventh day before the election.
Source: L. 93: Entire section added, p. 1406, � 32, effective July 1. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 831, � 31, effective July 1. L. 96: Entire section amended, p. 1740, � 23, effective July 1. L. 99: Entire section amended, p. 765, � 27, effective May 20. L. 2004: Entire section amended, p. 1522, � 1, effective May 28.