As Introduced

130th General Assembly Regular Session 2013-2014

H. B. No. 514

Representative Letson 

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A BILL

To amend section 3505.04 of the Revised Code to place

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the office of chief justice of the supreme court

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and justice of the supreme court first and second,

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respectively, in order on the nonpartisan ballot.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1.  That section 3505.04 of the Revised Code be	5
amended to read as follows:	6

Sec. 3505.04.  On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the	7
names of all nonpartisan candidates for election to judicial	8
office, office of member of the state board of education, office	9
of member of a board of education, municipal or township offices	10
for municipal corporations and townships in which primary	11
elections are not held for nomination of candidates by political	12
parties, and municipal offices of municipal corporations having	13
charters which provide for separate ballots for elections for such	14
municipal offices.	15

Such ballots shall have printed across the top, and below the	16
stubs, "Official Nonpartisan Ballot."	17

The order in which the offices are listed on the ballot shall	18
be prescribed by, and certified to each board of elections by, the	19
secretary of state; provided that the office of memberchief	20
justice of the state board of educationsupreme court shall be	21
listed first on the ballot, then the office of supreme court	22
justice, then the office of member of the state board of	23
education, then state, district, and county judicial offices shall	24
be listed on the ballot in such order, followed by municipal and	25
township offices, and by offices of member of a board of	26
education, in the order stated.	27

Within the rectangular space within which the title of each	28
judicial office is printed on the ballot and immediately below	29
such title shall be printed the date of the commencement of the	30
term of the office, if a full term, as follows: "Full term	31
commencing .......(Date).......," or the date of the end of the	32
term of the office, if an unexpired term, as follows: "Unexpired	33
term ending .......(Date)........"	34

The secretary of state shall prescribe the information and	35
directions to the voter to be printed on the ballot within the	36
rectangular space in which the title of office of member of the	37
state board of education appears.	38

Within the rectangular space within which the title of each	39
office for member of a board of education is printed on the ballot	40
shall be printed "For Member of Board of Education," and the	41
number to be elected, directions to the voter as to voting for	42
one, two, or more, and, if the office to be voted for is member of	43
a board of education of a city school district, words shall be	44
printed in said space on the ballot to indicate whether candidates	45
are to be elected from subdistricts or at large.	46

The names of all nonpartisan candidates for an office shall	47
be arranged in a group under the title of that office, and shall	48
be rotated and printed on the ballot as provided in section	49
3505.03 of the Revised Code.	50

No name or designation of any political party nor any words,	51
designations, or emblems descriptive of a candidate or histhe	52
candidate's political affiliation, or indicative of the method by	53
which such candidate was nominated or certified, shall be printed	54
under or after any nonpartisan candidate's name which is printed	55
on the ballot.	56

Section 2.  That existing section 3505.04 of the Revised Code	57
is hereby repealed.	58