Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     20-20-203. Resolution for poll hours, polling places, and judges. (1) At the trustee meeting when a school election is called, the trustees shall:
     (a) except as provided in 20-20-106(3), establish the time at which the polls are to open if in their discretion they determine that the polls shall be open before noon;
     (b) establish the polling places for such election, using the established polling places for general elections within the district wherever possible;
     (c) appoint, from among the qualified electors of the district, at least three judges for each polling place for such election and notify each judge of such appointment not less than 10 days before the election.
     (2) There shall be one polling place in each district unless the trustees establish additional polling places. If more than one polling place is established, the trustees shall define the boundaries for each polling place, and such trustee-defined polling place boundaries shall be coterminous with county precinct boundaries existing within a district. If the site of a polling place is changed from the polling place site used for the last preceding school election, special reference to the changed site of the polling place shall be included in the notice for such election.

     History: En. 75-6408 by Sec. 144, Ch. 5, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6408; amd. Sec. 359, Ch. 571, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 57, L. 1985.

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