Sec. 9-404a. Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office.
Sec. 9-404a. Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Petition forms for candidacies for nomination by a political party to a state office, as defined in section 9-372, or the district
office of representative in Congress shall be available from the Secretary of the State
beginning on the one-hundred-fifth day preceding the day of the primary for such state
and district offices. Petition forms for candidacies for nomination by a political party
to the district office of judge of probate, state senator or state representative shall be
available from the Secretary of the State beginning on the seventy-seventh day preceding
the day of the primary for such office. Any person who requests a petition form shall
give the person's name and address and the name, address and office sought of each
candidate for whom the petition is being obtained and shall file a statement signed by
each such candidate that such candidate consents to be a candidate for such office. Each
such candidate shall include on the statement of consent the candidate's name as the
candidate authorizes it to appear on the ballot. Upon receiving such information and
statement, the Secretary shall type or print on a petition form the name and address of
each such candidate, the office sought and the political party holding the primary. The
Secretary shall give to any person requesting such form one or more petition pages,
suitable for duplication, as the Secretary deems necessary. If the person is requesting
the form on behalf of an indigent candidate or a group of indigent candidates listed on
the same petition, the Secretary shall give the person the number of original pages that
the person requests or the number which the Secretary deems sufficient. An original
petition page filled in by the Secretary may be duplicated by or on behalf of the candidate
or candidates listed on the page and signatures may be obtained on such duplicates. The
duplicates may be filed in the same manner and shall be subject to the same requirements
as original petition pages. All information relative to primary petitions shall be a public
record.
(P.A. 03-241, S. 1; P.A. 06-137, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 03-241 effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date;
P.A. 06-137 changed the beginning date of availability for petition forms for district office of judge of probate, state senator
or state representative from the day following the close of the district convention to the seventy-seventh day preceding the
day of the primary for such office, effective January 1, 2007.