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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-23 Subsequent elections.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-23" heading="Subsequent elections.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="2-year passage required.">If an election is conducted pursuant to § 1-22, no further election shall be held for an exclusive representative of the employees in the unit in which said election was conducted for a period of 2 years from the date of the School Board’s certification of the results of said election.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Petition.">Subsequent elections may be held upon the filing of a petition with the School Board, supported by 30% or more of the employees of an appropriate unit, alleging that the said employees in said unit desire:<para num="(1)">that an employee organization be selected as their exclusive representative;</para>
      <para num="(2)">that an employee organization’s certification as exclusive representative be rescinded; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">that another employee organization be certified as their exclusive representative.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Election and certification.">The School Board may, upon verifying the requisite percentage, determine by secret ballot election which employee organization, if any, shall be the exclusive representative of such employees; provided, however, that no valid election shall have been conducted in said unit within the preceding 2 years.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 24, §18(c), (d)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-1031</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
