[Editor's note: For the applicability of this section on or after January 1, 2026, see the editor's note following the part 16 heading.]

1. (1) Unless a clerk provides multilingual ballot access pursuant to section 31-10-1603 (1)(a), the clerk of any municipality that satisfies the criteria specified in section 31-10-1603 (1) shall ensure that at least one publicly accessible location in the municipality is equipped to provide, upon the request of a qualified elector, an in-person minority language ballot in any minority language for which a minority language ballot is required pursuant to section 1-5-906 for the county in which the municipality partially or wholly exists. If the municipality establishes a polling place for an election, the clerk shall ensure that the polling place is equipped to provide, upon the request of a voter, an in-person minority language ballot.
2. (2) An in-person minority language ballot option must be a ballot on demand, a ballot from a printed stock of ballots, or a ballot via a voting device and must include all of the same content that is on the English language ballot.
3. (3) For an election using mail ballots, the clerk shall notify all qualified electors in the municipality via the mail ballot packet and in each language in which the in-person minority language ballot option will be available that electors may request an in-person minority language ballot and where the elector may request the in-person minority language ballot.

Source: L. 2025: Entire part added, (SB 25-001), ch. 178, p. 762, § 14, effective August 6.