Bill Text: PA SB838 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for affidavit of circulator.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-01 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB838 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB838-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 973
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 838 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PILEGGI, M. WHITE, MUSTO, RAFFERTY, STOUT, ORIE, EARLL, GREENLEAF, VANCE, FERLO AND WARD, MAY 1, 2009
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 1, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," further providing for affidavit of circulator.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 909 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, amended
February 19, 1986 (P.L.29, No.11), is amended to read:
Section 909. Petition May Consist of Several Sheets;
Affidavit of Circulator.--Said nomination petition may be on one
or more sheets, and different sheets must be used for signers
resident in different counties. If more than one sheet is used,
they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are
intended to constitute one petition, and each sheet shall be
numbered consecutively beginning with number one, at the foot of
each page. In cases of petitions for delegate or alternate
delegate to National conventions, each sheet shall contain a
notation indicating the presidential candidate to whom he is
committed or the term "uncommitted." Each sheet shall have
appended thereto the affidavit of the circulator of each sheet,
setting forth--(a) that he or she is a qualified elector duly
registered and enrolled as a member of the designated party of
the State, or of the political district, as the case may be,
referred to in said petition, unless said petition relates to
the nomination of a candidate for the office of school director
in a district where that office is elective, for a court of
common pleas, for the Philadelphia Municipal Court [or], for the
Traffic Court of Philadelphia or for [justice of the peace]
magisterial district judge, in which event the circulator need
not be a duly registered and enrolled member of the designated
party; (b) his residence, giving city, borough or township, with
street and number, if any; (c) that the signers thereto signed
with full knowledge of the contents of the petition; (d) that
their respective residences are correctly stated therein; (e)
that they all reside in the county named in the affidavit; (f)
that each signed on the date set opposite his name; and (g)
that, to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, the signers
are qualified electors and duly registered and enrolled members
of the designated party of the State, or of the political
district, as the case may be.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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