Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 207 — Federal Election Records
§ 20706. “Officer of election” defined
Statutory text
As used in this chapter, the term “officer of election” means any person who, under color of any Federal, State, Commonwealth, or local law, statute, ordinance, regulation, authority, custom, or usage, performs or is authorized to perform any function, duty, or task in connection with any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in any general, special, or primary election at which votes are cast for candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Pub. L. 86–449 title III § 306 · 74 Stat. 86
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 20706
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 306, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 306, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 306. As used in this title, the term “officer of election” means any person who, under color of any Federal, State, Commonwealth, or local law, statute, ordinance, regulation, authority, custom, or usage, performs or is authorized to perform any function, duty, or task in connection with any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in any general, special, or primary election at which votes are cast for candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1974e of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.