Immediately before proclamation is made of the opening of the polls, the election judges shall open the ballot box in the presence of those assembled and shall turn it upside down so as to empty it of anything that may be in it and then shall lock it securely. No ballot box shall be reopened until the time for counting the ballots or ballot cards therein.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 745, § 9, effective January 1, 1993.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-7-501 as it existed prior to 1992.