1. (a) Each year in which a general or municipal election is held, the election division shall call a meeting of all the members of the county election boards and the boards of registration to instruct them as to their duties under this title and federal law (including HAVA and NVRA). The election division may, but is not required to, call a meeting under this section during a year in which a general or a municipal election is not held.
2. (b) Each circuit court clerk shall attend a meeting called by the election division under this section.

3. (c) The codirectors of the election division shall set the time and place of the instructional meeting. In years in which a primary election is held, the election division:

   1. (1) may conduct the meeting before the first day of the year; and

   2. (2) shall conduct the meeting before primary election day.

      The instructional meeting may not last for more than two (2) days.

4. (d) Each member of a county election board or board of registration and an individual who has been elected or selected to serve as circuit court clerk but has not yet begun serving in that office is entitled to receive all of the following from the county general fund without appropriation:

   1. (1) A per diem of twenty-four dollars ($24) for attending the instructional meeting called by the election division under this section.
   2. (2) A mileage allowance at the state rate for the distance necessarily traveled in going and returning from the place of the instructional meeting called by the election division under this section.
   3. (3) Reimbursement for the payment of the instructional meeting registration fee.
   4. (4) An allowance for lodging for each night preceding conference attendance equal to the lodging allowance provided to state employees in travel status.

As added by P.L.3-1997, SEC.33. Amended by P.L.38-1999, SEC.5; P.L.26-2000, SEC.2; P.L.209-2003, SEC.12; P.L.120-2009, SEC.2.