Section 3-1010. DATE OF ELECTION

 

1010.1At the time the Board certifies an initiative petition as numerically sufficient for ballot access, the Board shall call for the initiative measure to be included on the ballot for the next primary, general or city-wide special election held at least 90 days after the date on which the petition was certified as numerically sufficient. 

 

1010.2At the time the Board certifies a referendum petition as numerically sufficient for ballot access, the Board shall call a special election to occur within one hundred and fourteen (114) days after the date on which the petition was certified as numerically sufficient,  provided that if a previously scheduled primary, general or special election will occur between 54 and 114 days after the date the measure has been certified as numerically sufficient, the Board may call for the referendum measure to be included on the ballot for that election.

 

1010.3The Board shall publish the established legislative text in no less than two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the District of Columbia within thirty (30) calendar days after the date of certification of the initiative or referendum petition as numerically sufficient for ballot access.

 

 

authority

D.C. Official Code § 1-1001.05 (a)(14).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 43 DCR 103 (January 12, 1996); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 625 (January 24, 2014).