25-432. Limitations on elections that may be conducted under act. An election shall not be conducted under this act unless:

(a) The secretary of state approves a written plan for conduct of the election, including, but not limited to, a written timetable for the conduct of the election, submitted by the county election officer;

(b) the election is nonpartisan;

(c) the election is not one at which any candidate is elected, retained or recalled;

(d) the election is not held on the same date as another election in which the qualified electors of that subdivision of government are eligible to cast ballots, except this restriction shall not apply to mail ballot elections held under K.S.A. 79-2925c, and amendments thereto, or elections held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March; and

(e) the election is a question submitted election and all of the qualified electors of one of the following subdivisions of government are the only electors eligible to vote on such question:

(1) Counties;

(2) cities;

(3) school districts, except in an election held pursuant to K.S.A. 72-635 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(4) townships;

(5) benefit districts organized under K.S.A. 31-301, and amendments thereto;

(6) cemetery districts organized under K.S.A. 15-1013 or 17-1330, and amendments thereto;

(7) community college districts organized under K.S.A. 71-1101 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(8) fire districts organized under K.S.A. 19-3601 or 80-1512, and amendments thereto;

(9) hospital districts;

(10) improvement districts organized under K.S.A. 19-2753, and amendments thereto;

(11) Johnson county park and recreation district organized under K.S.A. 19-2859, and amendments thereto;

(12) water districts organized under K.S.A. 19-3501 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(13) transportation development districts created pursuant to K.S.A. 12-17,140 et seq., and amendments thereto; or

(14) any tract of land annexed pursuant to K.S.A. 12-521, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 1983, ch. 125, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 374, § 34; L. 1991, ch. 101, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 105, § 12; L. 2003, ch. 120, § 15; L. 2011, ch. 101, § 10; L. 2016, ch. 66, § 8; L. 2023, ch. 79, § 23; L. 2025, ch. 82, § 2; July 1.