Title 21, Chapter 2, Section 70.1
( 21-2-70.1)
(a) The municipal superintendent shall conduct, in accordance with
this chapter, all municipal elections held within his or her
municipality. (b) The municipal superintendent shall be a person or committee
selected by the governing authority of the municipality in a public
meeting and such selection shall be recorded in the minutes of such
meeting. The municipal superintendent shall receive compensation
fixed and paid by the governing authority of the municipality from
municipal funds. The appointment shall be made in a public meeting
and the appointment shall be recorded in the minutes of said
meeting. In the event that a municipality fails to make an
appointment, the city clerk shall serve as the municipal
superintendent. A parent, spouse, child, brother, sister,
father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law,
brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of a candidate shall not be
eligible to serve as a municipal superintendent in any primary or
election in which such candidate's name appears on the ballot. |