Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 13. ELECTIONS

CHAPTER 15. CANVASSING, RETURNS, AND CERTIFICATES

Part 1. General Provisions

Notices Relating To Absentee Ballot Counting Board

13-15-105. Notices relating to absentee ballot counting board. (1) Not more than 10 days or less than 2 days before an election, the election administrator shall broadcast on radio or television, as provided in 2-3-105 through 2-3-107, or publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county a notice indicating the method that will be used for counting absentee ballots and the place and time that the absentee ballots will be counted on election day.

(2) If the count will begin while the polls are open, the notice required under subsection (1) must inform the public that any person observing the procedures of the count must be sequestered with the board until the polls are closed and is required to take the oath provided in 13-15-207(4).

History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 120, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 54, Ch. 414, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 2, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 368, L. 2017.