Section 17-52a-405 - Plan may propose changing forms of county government - Partisan elections(1)(a) The optional plan proponent described in Subsection 17-52a-404(1) shall ensure that each optional plan proposes changing the form of county government to: (i) for a county of the first, second, third, or fourth class: (A) the county commission form under Section 17-52a-201;(B) the expanded county commission form under Section 17-52a-202;(C) the county executive and council form under Section 17-52a-203; or(D) the council-manager form under Section 17-52a-204; and(ii) for a county of the fifth or sixth class: (A) the county commission form under Section 17-52a-201; or(B) the expanded county commission form under Section 17-52a-202.(b) The optional plan proponent described in Subsection 17-52a-404(1) may not recommend an optional plan that:(i) proposes changing the form of government to a form not authorized in Subsection (1)(a);(ii) provides for the nonpartisan election of elected officers;(iii) imposes a limit on the number of terms or years that an elected officer may serve;(iv) provides for elected officers to be subject to a recall election; or(v) provides, in a county with a population of 225,000 or more, for a full-time county commission in an expanded county commission form of government under Section 17-52a-202.(2) A county that provides for the election of the county's elected officers through a partisan election may not change to a process that provides for the election of the county's elected officers through a nonpartisan election.Amended by Chapter 47, 2020 General Session ,§ 11, eff. 3/24/2020.Renumbered from § 17-52-402 and amended by Chapter 68, 2018 General Session ,§ 24, eff. 3/15/2018.Amended by Chapter 216, 2015 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/12/2015.Amended by Chapter 241, 2001 General Session