Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 82.djvu/147

 82 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 90-292-APR. 22, 1968

(B) by striking out "Municipal O u r t for the District of Columbia'' in subsection (e) and niserting "District of Columbia Court of General Sessions". (7) Section 10 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1110) is amended— Elections. (A) by striking out the second and third sentences of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and the second sentence of paragraph (2) 7569 Stat. 702; Stat. 819. of such subsection; (B) by adding at the end of subsection (a) the following new paragraphs: " (3) The first general election for members of the Board of Education shall he held on November 5, 1968, and thereafter on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered calendar year. "(4)(A) If in a general election for members of the Board of Runoffs. Education no candidate for the office of member from a ward, or no candidate for the office of member elected at large (where only one at-large position is being filled at such election), receives a majority of the votes validly cast for such office, a runoff election shall be held on the twenty-first day next following such election. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes in such runoff election shall be declared elected. " (B) When more than one office of member elected at large is being filled at such a general election, the candidates for such offices who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, except that no candidate shall be declared elected who does not receive a majority of the number of all votes cast for candidates for election at large in such election divided by the number of at-large offices to be filled in such election. Where one or more of the at-large positions remains unfilled, a runoff election shall be held as provided in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, and the candidate or candidates receiving the highest number of votes in such runoff election shall be declared elected. " (C) Where a vacancy in an unexpired term for an at-large position is being filled at the same general election as one or more full term at-large positions, the successful candidate or candidates with the highest number of votes in the general election, or in the runoff election if a runoff election is necessary, shall be declared elected to the full tenn position or positions, provided that any candidate declared elected at the general election shall for this purpose be deemed to have received a higher number of votes than any candidate elected in the runoff election. " (D) The Board may resolve any tie vote occurring in an election governed by this paragraph by requiring the candidates receiving the tie vote to cast lots at such time and in such manner as the Board may prescribe. "(5) In the case of a runoff election for the office of member of the Board of Education elected at large, the candidates in such runoff election shall be those unsuccessful candidates, in number not more than one more than the number of such offices to be filled, who in the general election next preceding such runoff election received the highest number of votes less than a majority. I n the case of a runoff election for the office of member of the Board of Education from a ward, the runoff election shall be held in such ward, and the two candidates who in the general election next preceding such runoff election received respectively the highest number and the second highest number of votes validly cast in such ward or who tied in receiving the highest number of such votes shall run in such runoff election. If in any case (other than the one described in the preceding .sentence) a tie vote must be resolved to determine the candidates to run

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