(1) Except as provided in sections 23-3301 and 23-3302, a county superintendent of schools shall be elected in each county at the statewide general election in 1998. The term of the county superintendent shall end and the elective office of county superintendent shall be discontinued on June 30, 2000. Until June 30, 2000, the county superintendent shall meet the qualifications found in sections 23-3301 and 23-3302 and shall be elected on the nonpartisan ballot.
(2) The election commissioner or county clerk of each county shall notify the Commissioner of Education of the nominations for the office of county superintendent in his or her county and of the election to such office at the time the results of the statewide primary and general elections respectively are ascertained. The election commissioner or county clerk shall refuse to place the name of any candidate on the ballot for such office who has not presented a certified statement from the office of the Commissioner of Education that such candidate holds a valid certificate in the county of such candidate as required under the provisions of subsection
(2) or
(3) of section 23-3301 unless the same is not required under subsection
(4) of such section.
