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2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
CHAPTER 15 - NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES
Section 5-15-110. Filing with municipal election commission of nomination petition by candidates nominated by petition.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 5-15-110 (2017)
Candidates for municipal offices in any partisan or nonpartisan general election nominated by petition shall file the necessary petition with the municipal election commission seventy-five days before the general election concerned. The commission shall examine the petition and determine its validity not later than sixty days before the general election concerned. A nomination petition must bear the signatures of not less than five percent of the qualified electors of the geographical area of the office for which he offers as a candidate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-99; 1975 (59) 692; 1977 Act No. 81 Section 4; 1988 Act No. 387, Section 2; 1998 Act No. 412, Section 2.
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