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