Title 20A, Title 20A: Election Code

20A-11-905. Election polls -- Disclosure required. (1) A person who conducts a poll shall disclose to the person being surveyed who paid for the poll before or at the conclusion of the poll. (2) The lieutenant governor shall: impose a $100 fine on a person who fails to make the d…

20A-12-201. Judicial appointees -- Retention elections. (1) Each judicial appointee to a court is subject to an unopposed retention election at the first general election held more than three years after the judge or justice was appointed. After the first retention election: each…

20A-12-301. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Contribution" means any of the following when done for political purposes: a gift, subscription, donation, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value given to the judge or the judge's personal campaign committee; an…

20A-12-301.5. Disclosure of actual source or recipient required. (1) As used in this section, "transactional intermediary" means a person, including a credit card company, a financial institution, or a money transfer service, that pays or transfers money to a person on behalf of …

20A-12-302. Campaign committee required. (1) When permitted to do so by the Code of Judicial Conduct promulgated by the Utah Supreme Court, and if the judge chooses to solicit contributions or make expenditures to promote his retention, the judge may establish no more than one re…

20A-12-303. Separate account for campaign funds -- Reporting contributions. (1) The judge or the judge's personal campaign committee shall deposit each contribution in one or more separate personal campaign accounts in a financial institution. (2) The judge or the judge's persona…

20A-12-304. Judicial retention election candidates -- Financial reporting requirements -- Year-end summary report. (1) The judge's personal campaign committee shall file a summary report with the lieutenant governor by January 10 of the year after the regular general election yea…

20A-12-305. Judicial retention election candidates -- Financial reporting requirements -- Interim report. (1) The judge's personal campaign committee shall file an interim report with the lieutenant governor seven calendar days before the regular general election date. (2) Each i…

20A-12-306. Judges -- Failure to file reports -- Penalties. (1) If a judge's personal campaign committee fails to file the interim report due before the regular general election, the lieutenant governor shall, after making a reasonable attempt to discover if the report was timely…

20A-13-101.1. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Census block" means any one of the 71,207 individual geographic areas into which the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce has divided the state of Utah, to each of which the Bureau of the Census has…

20A-13-101.5. Representatives to the United States Congress -- Four representative districts -- When elected -- District boundaries. (1) The state of Utah is divided into four districts for the election of representatives to the Congress of the United States, with one member to b…

20A-13-102. Congressional districts -- Filing -- Legal boundaries. (1) The Legislature shall file a copy of the Congressional block equivalency file enacted by the Legislature and the resulting Congressional shapefile with the lieutenant governor's office. The legal boundaries of…

20A-13-102.2. County clerk, Utah Geospatial Resource Center, and lieutenant governor responsibilities -- Maps and voting precinct boundaries. (1) As used in this section: "Geospatial center" means the Utah Geospatial Resource Center. "Redistricting boundary data" means the Congre…

20A-13-103. Omissions from maps -- How resolved. (1) If any area of the state is omitted from a Congressional district in the Congressional shapefile in the possession of the lieutenant governor's office, the county clerk of the affected county, upon discovery of the omission, sh…

20A-13-104. Uncertain boundaries -- How resolved. (1) As used in this section, "affected party" means: a representative whose Congressional district boundary is uncertain because the boundary in the Congressional shapefile used to establish the district boundary has been removed,…

20A-13-201. Senators -- When elected. At the general election in November, 1932, and at each general election immediately preceding the expiration of the term of office of a United States senator from Utah, there shall be elected one United States senator to serve for a period of…

20A-13-301. Presidential elections -- Effect of vote. (1) Each registered political party shall choose individuals to act as presidential electors and to fill vacancies in the office of presidential electors for their party's candidates for president and vice president of the Uni…

20A-13-302. Certificate of election. (1) The lieutenant governor shall transmit certificates of election to each of the electors selected under Section: 20A-13-301 if the candidates for president and vice president of the United States who receive the highest number of votes in t…

20A-13-303. Filling vacancies. If there is a vacancy in the office of presidential elector because of death, refusal to act, failure to attend, ineligibility, or any other cause, the individual or political party represented by the elector who caused the vacancy shall immediately…

20A-13-304. Meeting to ballot -- Casting ballot for individual not nominated by elector's candidate or party. (1) The electors shall meet at the office of the lieutenant governor at the state capitol at noon of the first Wednesday of the January after their election, or at noon o…

20A-14-101.1. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Board" means the State Board of Education. (2) "Board block equivalency file" means the electronic file designated as SB2005S07_BEF.txt that assigns each of Utah's 71,207 census blocks to a particular State Board of Education …

20A-14-101.5. State Board of Education -- Number of members -- State Board of Education district boundaries. (1) The State Board of Education shall consist of 15 members, with one member to be elected from each State Board of Education district. (2) The Legislature adopts the off…

20A-14-102. State Board of Education districts -- Filing -- Legal boundaries. (1) The Legislature shall file a copy of the Board block equivalency file enacted by the Legislature and the resulting Board shapefile with the lieutenant governor's office. The legal boundaries of Stat…

20A-14-102.1. Omissions from maps -- How resolved. (1) If any area of the state is omitted from a State Board of Education district in the Board shapefile in the possession of the lieutenant governor's office, the county clerk of the affected county, upon discovery of the omissio…

20A-14-102.2. Uncertain boundaries -- How resolved. (1) As used in this section: "Affected party" means: a state school board member whose State Board of Education district boundary is uncertain because the feature used to establish the district boundary in the Board shapefile ha…

20A-14-102.3. County clerk, Utah Geospatial Resource Center, and lieutenant governor responsibilities -- Maps and voting precinct boundaries. (1) As used in this section: "Geospatial center" means the Utah Geospatial Resource Center. "Redistricting boundary data" means the Board …

20A-14-103. State Board of Education members -- Term -- Requirements. (1) Unless otherwise provided by law and except as provided in Subsection: (2) voters in the following districts, as designated in the Senate block equivalency file, shall elect a State Board of Education membe…

20A-14-104.1. State Board of Education -- Candidacy. (1) A person interested in becoming a candidate for the office of State Board of Education member shall: file a declaration of candidacy in accordance with Sectionsand; 20A-9-201 20A-9-202 file a certificate of nomination in ac…

20A-14-201. Boards of education -- School board districts -- Creation -- Redistricting. (1) The county legislative body, for local school districts whose boundaries encompass more than a single municipality, and the municipal legislative body, for local school districts contained…

20A-14-202. Local boards of education -- Membership -- When elected -- Qualifications -- Avoiding conflicts of interest. (1) The board of education of a school district with a student population of less than 10,000 students comprises five members. The board of education of a scho…

20A-14-203. Becoming a member of a local board of education -- Declaration of candidacy -- Election. (1) An individual may become a candidate for a local school board by: filing a declaration of candidacy with the county clerk during the applicable declaration of candidacy filing…

20A-14-204. Effect of transfer of a district on composition of local school board. If a portion of one school district becomes part of another school district, any member of the board of education residing within the transferred portion becomes a member of the board of the transf…

20A-14-205. Vacancies on local school boards. Vacancies on local school boards shall be filled as provided in Section.

20A-14-206. Student petition for student member on local school board. (1) A student petition requesting that a local school board appoint a nonvoting student member to the board may be submitted to the board under this section. (2) The petition shall have the signatures of at le…

20A-15-101. Scope and application of chapter. (1) The procedures contained in this section govern when the Congress of the United States: proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and directs that the amendment be ratified by conventions in each state. (2) I…

20A-15-102. Election to elect convention delegates. (1) The governor shall: issue a proclamation establishing the date of an election to elect 21 delegates to Utah's ratification convention from the state at large; ensure that the election is held at least as soon as the next reg…

20A-15-103. Delegates -- Candidacy -- Qualifications -- Nominating procedures -- Removal of petition signature. (1) Candidates for the office of delegate to the ratification convention shall be citizens, residents of Utah, and at least 21 years old. (2) Persons wishing to be dele…

20A-15-104. Ballot -- Form -- Manner of marking and voting. (1) The requirements of this section govern the form of the ballot and the specific procedures for electing delegates to the ratification convention. (2) Each county clerk shall ensure that the ballot to select delegates…

20A-15-201. Convening -- Vacancies -- Election of officers -- Journal of proceedings. (1) The delegates to the convention shall convene at the state capitol at noon on the 28th calendar day after the delegates' election to pass upon the question of whether the proposed amendment …

20A-15-202. Certificate of ratification. (1) If the convention agrees, by vote of a majority of the total number of delegates, to ratify the proposed amendment, the president and secretary of the convention shall: prepare and sign a certificate to that effect; and transmit it to …

20A-16-102. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Covered voter" means an individual who: satisfies Utah's voter eligibility requirements that do not relate to residency; is not registered to vote in a state other than Utah; is absent from the United States on the day of the…

20A-16-103. Application to elections -- Voting by foreign United States citizen. (1) The voting procedures in this chapter apply to an election authorized by this title. (2) A covered voter who is a foreign United States citizen may only vote in a federal election and may only vo…

20A-16-201. Duties of lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor shall: (1) implement this chapter and the state's responsibilities under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.; (2) make available to covered voters information regarding…

20A-16-202. Report on ballots. (1) No later than 60 calendar days after each regular general election date, each county clerk shall submit a report to the lieutenant governor indicating: the number of ballots sent to covered voters; and the number of ballots returned by covered v…

20A-16-301. Overseas voter's registration address. Subject to Section, in registering to vote, an overseas voter who is eligible to vote in the state shall: (1) use and be assigned to the voting precinct of the address of the last place of residence of the voter in the state; or …

20A-16-302. Methods of registering to vote. (1) To apply to register to vote, in addition to any other approved method, a covered voter may use a federal postcard application or the application's electronic equivalent. (2) A covered voter may use the declaration accompanying a fe…