Section 242.030 - Date of local option election(1) The date of the local option election shall be stated in the petition for the local option election.(2) The local option election shall be held not earlier than sixty (60) and not later than one hundred fifty (150) days after the date the petition is filed with the county clerk.(3) No local option election shall be held in the same territory more than once in every three (3) years.(4) In order for the local option election to be held on the day fixed by law for holding a primary, the petition shall be filed not earlier than the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November of the year preceding the day on which the primary is to be held and not later than the last Tuesday in January preceding the day fixed by law for holding the primary.(5) In order for the local option election to be held on the day fixed by law for a regular election, the petition shall be filed not later than the second Tuesday in August preceding the day fixed by law for holding the regular election.Amended by 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 62,§ 20, eff. 6/29/2017.Effective:7/15/1998
Amended 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 3, effective7/15/1998. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 375, effective 6/17/1978. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 2. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective 10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554c-4.