Sec. 9-453u. (Formerly Sec. 9-378m). Reservation of party designation.
Sec. 9-453u. (Formerly Sec. 9-378m). Reservation of party designation. (a) An
application to reserve a party designation with the Secretary of the State and to form a
party designation committee may be made at any time after November 3, 1981, by filing
in the office of the secretary a written statement signed by at least twenty-five electors
who desire to be members of such committee.
(b) The statement shall include the offices for which candidates may petition for
nomination under the party designation to be reserved but shall not include an office if
no elector who has signed the application is entitled to vote at an election for such office.
(c) The statement shall include the party designation to be reserved which (1) shall
consist of not more than three words and not more than twenty-five letters; (2) shall not
incorporate the name of any major party; (3) shall not incorporate the name of any minor
party which is entitled to nominate candidates for any office which will appear on the
same ballot with any office included in the statement; (4) shall not be the same as any
party designation for which a reservation with the secretary is currently in effect for any
office included in the statement; and (5) shall not be the word "none", or incorporate
the words "unaffiliated" or "unenrolled" or any similarly antonymous form of the words
"affiliated" or "enrolled".
(d) The statement shall include the names of two persons who are authorized by
the party designation committee to execute and file with the secretary statements of
endorsement required by section 9-453o and certificates of nomination as required by
section 9-460.
(e) The secretary shall examine the statement, and if it complies with the requirements of this section, the secretary shall reserve the party designation for the offices
included in the statement and record such reservation in the office of the secretary. The
reservation shall continue in effect from the date it is recorded until the day following
any regular election at which no candidate appears on the appropriate ballot for that
office under that party designation.
(P.A. 81-447, S. 1; P.A. 83-475, S. 24, 43; P.A. 87-472, S. 1, 14; P.A. 02-89, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 83-475 amended Subsec. (e) to provide for termination of party designation on day following first election
at which no candidate appears on the appropriate ballot for a particular office under the party designation; Sec. 9-378m
transferred to Sec. 9-453u in 1985; P.A. 87-472, in Subsec. (c) increased maximum number of letters in a reserved party
designation, from 20 to 25, and added Subdiv. (5) re prohibition on use of antonymous form of words "affiliated" or
"unenrolled", and added Subsec. (f) re cancellation of reserved party designations prohibited under Subsec. (c)(5) of this
section; P.A. 02-89 amended Subsec. (e) to delete an exception re Subsec. (f) and deleted as obsolete Subsec. (f) re the
cancellation of party designations reserved prior to June 24, 1987, that are prohibited by Subsec. (c)(5).