1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to elections; providing for elimination of
1.3 	the state primary in a municipality or county if no
1.4 	nominee must be selected at the state primary for any
1.5 	partisan or nonpartisan office in that municipality or
1.6 	county; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
1.7 	204D.03, subdivision 1.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 204D.03,
1.10 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.11 		Subdivision 1.State primary. (a) The state primary
1.12 	shall be held on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in
1.13 	September in each even-numbered year to select the nominees of
1.14 	the major political parties for partisan offices and the
1.15 	nominees for nonpartisan offices to be filled at the state
1.16 	general election, other than presidential electors.
1.17 	(b) If in any municipality or county there are no partisan
1.18 	or nonpartisan offices for which nominees must be selected at
1.19 	the state primary, no state primary shall be held in the
1.20 	municipality or county.  However, no later than 15 days after
1.21 	the close of filings, the municipal clerk or county auditor in
1.22 	such a municipality or county must post a notice in the office,
1.23 	and send a copy of the notice to the secretary of state, stating
1.24 	that no primary will be held in the municipality or county
1.25 	because there are no partisan or nonpartisan offices for which
1.26 	nominees must be selected in the municipality or county.