PRINTER'S NO. 1123
No. 1017 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY TILGHMAN, APRIL 27, 1993
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 27, 1993
AN ACT
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 affidavits of circulators
12 of nomination petitions.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 909 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
16 No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, amended
17 February 19, 1986 (P.L.29, No.11), is amended to read:
18 Section 909. Petition May Consist of Several Sheets;
19 Affidavit of Circulator.--Said nomination petition may be on one
20 or more sheets, and different sheets must be used for signers
21 resident in different counties. If more than one sheet is used,
22 they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are
1 intended to constitute one petition, and each sheet shall be
2 numbered consecutively beginning with number one, at the foot of
3 each page. In cases of petitions for delegate or alternate
4 delegate to National conventions, each sheet shall contain a
5 notation indicating the presidential candidate to whom he is
6 committed or the term "uncommitted." [Each sheet shall have
7 appended thereto] Printed upon each sheet shall be the affidavit
8 of the circulator [of each sheet], setting forth--(a) that he or
9 she is a qualified elector duly registered and enrolled as a
10 member of the designated party of the State, or of the political
11 district, as the case may be, referred to in said petition,
12 unless said petition relates to the nomination of a candidate
13 for a court of common pleas, for the Philadelphia Municipal
14 Court or for the Traffic Court of Philadelphia or for justice of
15 the peace, in which event the circulator need not be a duly
16 registered and enrolled member of the designated party; (b) his
17 residence, giving city, borough or township, with street and
18 number, if any; (c) that the signers thereto signed with full
19 knowledge of the contents of the petition; (d) that their
20 respective residences are correctly stated therein; (e) that
21 they all reside in the county named in the affidavit; (f) that
22 each signed on the date set opposite his name; and (g) that, to
23 the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, the signers are
24 qualified electors and duly registered and enrolled members of
25 the designated party of the State, or of the political district,
26 as the case may be. No affidavit may be executed on any form
27 other than that printed upon the sheet, and nothing may be
28 attached or appended to the sheet under any circumstances.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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