2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 118 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
118.115 Nominations for unexpired terms -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge.

Download as PDF 118.115 Nominations for unexpired terms -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) (2) Except as provided in subsection (2)(b) of KRS 83A.045 governing vacancies in candidacy, candidates for unexpired terms to be filled at a regular election shall be nominated at the primary next preceding the regular election, if the vacancy occurred not less than one hundred thirty-four (134) days before the primary. If the vacancy occurred less than one hundred thirty-four (134) days before the primary, the nomination shall be made in a manner determined by the governing authority of the political party concerned. In the preparation of ballots, candidates for full terms shall be grouped together, and candidates for unexpired terms shall be grouped together, under appropriate headings, so that the voter may easily distinguish the candidates for full terms from the candidates for unexpired terms. A judge who elected to retire as a Senior Status Special Judge in accordance with KRS 21.580 shall not become a candidate or a nominee for any elected office during the five (5) year term prescribed in KRS 21.580(1)(a)1., regardless of the number of days served by the judge acting as a Senior Status Special Judge. Effective:June 25, 2013 History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2013. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 38, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 9, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 101, effective June 21, 1974.