Vacancies in office.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0392

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0099

Vacancies in office.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s)
Jennings
and Coe and Representative(s) Brown, Childers and Davison

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
vacancies in office; providing for the selection of one person
by the
state central committee

to fill the vacancy of United States senator
, representative in congress
or other state offices as specified
;
repealing provisions for special election to fill a vacancy for representative in congress;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 22
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18
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111(a)
(intro) and
(i) is amended to read:

22
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18
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111.

Vacancies in other offices; temporary appointments.

(a)

Any vacancy in any other elective office in the state except
representative in congress or
the board of trustees of a school or community college district, shall be filled by the governing body, or as otherwise provided in this section, by appointment of a temporary successor to serve until a successor for the remainder of the unexpired term is elected at the next general election and takes office on the first Monday of the following January.

If a vacancy in a four (4) year term of office occurs after the first day for filing an application for nomination pursuant to W.S. 22
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209, the temporary successor appointed shall serve until the first Monday in January following the second general election thereafter. The following apply:

(i)

If a vacancy occurs in the office of United States senator
, representative in congress
or in any state office other than the office of justice of the supreme court and the office of district court judge, the governor shall immediately notify in writing the chairman of the state central committee of the political party which the last incumbent represented at the time of his election under W.S. 22
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120(a)(vii), or at the time of his appointment if not elected to office.

The chairman shall call a meeting of the state central committee to be held not later than fifteen (15) days after he receives notice of the vacancy. At the meeting the state central committee shall select and transmit to the governor the
names

name
of
three (3) persons

one (1) person
qualified to fill the vacancy.

Within five (5) days after receiving
these three (3) names

the name
, the governor shall fill the vacancy by temporary appointment of
one (1) of the three (3)

that person
to hold the office. If the incumbent who has vacated office did not represent a political party at the time of his election, or at the time of his appointment if not elected to office, the governor shall notify in writing the chairman of all state central committees of parties registered with the secretary of state. The state central committees shall submit to the governor, within fifteen (15) days after notice of the vacancy, the name of one (1) person qualified to fill the vacancy. The governor shall also cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the state notice of the vacancy in office. Qualified persons who do not belong to a party may, within fifteen (15) days after publication of the vacancy in office, submit a petition signed by one hundred (100) registered voters, seeking consideration for appointment to the office. Within five (5) days after receiving the names of qualified persons, the governor shall fill the vacancy by temporary appointment to the office, from the names submitted or from those petitioning for appointment;

Section 2
.
W.S. 22
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103 through 22
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109 are repealed.

Section
3
.
Th
is act is effective July 1, 2007
.

(END)

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