FISCAL
NOTE
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
By
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and
reenact §3-1-31 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
requiring all local special elections to be held on the days and hours of
general, primary or state-wide elections.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §3-1-31 of the
Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL
PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
§3-1-31. Days and hours
of elections.
General elections shall be
held in the several election precincts of the state on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in November of each even year. Primary and special elections
shall be held on the days provided by law therefor: Provided: That beginning July 1, 2017, all local elections
shall be held on days and hours of general, primary or state-wide elections.
At every primary, general
or special election the polls shall be opened in each precinct on the day of such
the election at six-thirty o'clock in the forenoon and be closed at
seven-thirty o'clock in the evening.
Note: The purpose of this bill is
to require local elections to be held at times of general, primary or
state-wide elections.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.