---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 81.24"
title: "25"
number: "81.24"
heading: "What information must be included on the Secretarial election notice?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/81.24"
---

# §81.24. What information must be included on the Secretarial election notice?


The Secretarial election notice must contain all of the following items.

- (a) The date of the Secretarial election;
- (b) The date which registration forms must be received by the Secretarial Election Board;
- (c) A description of the purpose of the Secretarial election;
- (d) A description of the statutory and tribal authority under which the Secretarial election is held;
- (e) The deadline for filing challenges to the Registered Voters List;
- (f) If polling sites are to be used, the date an absentee ballot request must be received by the Secretarial Election Board;
- (g) A statement as to whether the Secretarial election is being held entirely by mailout ballot or with polling sites, in accordance with the tribe's governing document's amendment or adoption articles; and
- (h) **The locations and hours of established polling sites, if any.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: : 25 U.S.C. 473a, 476, 477, as amended, and 503.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 63106, Oct. 19, 2015, unless otherwise noted.