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Pennsylvania Statutes § 2954 Number, form and requirements of nomination certificates to fill certain vacancies

⤴ Up to Nominations to Fill Certain Vacancies

Statute Text

(a) Each political party shall be entitled to nominate and to file nomination certificates in accordance with the provisions of section nine hundred ninety-three of this act for the purpose of supplying as many candidates as each elector will be entitled to vote for at the ensuing November election. Every nomination certificate for a November election required under the provisions of section nine hundred ninety-three of this act shall be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and shall set forth the following:
(1) The office and district, if any, for which it is filed;
(2) The cause of the vacancy;
(3) The rule or rules of the political party setting forth the provisions applicable to the nomination of a candidate or candidates to fill said vacancy;
(4) That a quorum of the committee, caucus or convention as provided by the party rules duly convened and the names of those present at said meeting or their proxies that said persons are the duly appointed or elected members of said committee, caucus or convention;
(5) The name, residence and occupation of the candidate duly nominated at said meeting.
(b) Every such certificate of nomination shall be signed by the presiding officer and the secretary or secretaries of the committees, caucus or convention and shall be sworn or affirmed to by them before any officer qualified to administer oaths.

History

1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. IX, § 994, added 1953, Aug. 26, P.L. 1479, § 1.

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