Chapter 389
2009 -- H 5094
Enacted 01/05/10
A N A C T
RELATING TO
ELECTIONS -- FEDERAL ELECTIVE OFFICERS
Introduced By: Representatives Fierro, Pacheco, Gablinske, Sullivan, and Savage
Date Introduced: January 14, 2009
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 17-4-9 of the General Laws in Chapter
17-4 entitled "Federal
Elective Officers" is
hereby amended to read as follows:
17-4-9.
Special election to fill senatorial vacancy -- Temporary appointment.
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Special election to fill
senatorial vacancy.
-- Whenever a person elected a
senator in congress,
at any time between the day of that person's election
and the beginning of his or her term of
office, refuses to serve and so declares to the secretary of
state, or dies, becomes insane, removes
from the state, or is otherwise incapacitated, or whenever
a vacancy happens in the representation
of this state in the
directed to the several city and town clerks, or local boards
as the case may be, ordering a new
election of senator to fill the vacancy to be held in the
state at the next general election after the
expiration of seventy (70) days from the date of the occurrence
of the vacancy; provided, that
pending the election, the governor shall appoint some person
to fill the vacancy, and the person
appointed shall serve until the election and qualification of the
person elected to fill the vacancy.
at as early a date, to be stated in the writ, as will be
in compliance with the provisions of law in
relation to these elections, but no election provided for by
this section shall be held exclusively on
Saturday; provided, that whenever a vacancy occurs
between the first day of July and the first
day of October in any even numbered year, the governor
shall, unless in his or her opinion the
public good requires an earlier special election, issue his
or her writ for a special election to fill
the vacancy to be held with the general election on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November of that year.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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