§ 168.285Candidates for state board of education and boards of state universities; death,

withdrawal or disqualification; election of new candidate, certification; ballots.
 Sec. 285.
     Whenever a candidate of a political party, after having been nominated to membership on
 the state board of education, the board of regents of the University of Michigan, the board of
 trustees of Michigan State University, or the board of governors of Wayne State University,
 shall die, withdraw, remove from the state, or become disqualified for any reason, the state
 central committee of said party shall meet forthwith and, by a majority vote of the members
 thereof, shall select a candidate to fill the vacancy thereby caused. The name of the candidate
 so selected shall be immediately certified by the chairman and the secretary of said committee
 to the secretary of state and to the board of election commissioners for each county, whose
 duty it is to prepare the official ballots, and said board shall cause to be printed or placed upon
 said ballots, in the proper place, the name of the candidate so selected to fill the vacancy.