§ 11-16-313. Impossibility of determining winner - Special town meeting to fill contested office.  


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  • In the event, after a hearing is conducted pursuant to Section 11 or 12 of this act, it is deemed impossible to determine who should be announced the winner, the judge shall notify the presiding officer of the town meeting of the same.  It shall then be the duty of the presiding officer to call a special town meeting for the purpose of filling the contested office, provided that any nominee upon whom fraud has been proved shall not be a nominee in the new election.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 105, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.