Section 17-13-5Ballots kept by sheriff six months after election.
The sheriff shall keep the ballots six months, and then the packages shall be taken out of the box, without opening or unsealing the packages, and destroyed unless within six months the sheriff having them in custody is notified that the election of some officer for which the election was held will be contested, in which case he must preserve the box containing the ballots cast for such contestant until such contest is finally determined or until such box is demanded by some legally constituted custodian during such contest.
(Code 1907, §417; Code 1923, §507; Code 1940, T. 17, §196.)
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