PRINTER'S NO. 2462
No. 1429 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY HARHAI, BELFANTI, BIANCUCCI, BRENNAN, GEIST,
HALUSKA, HERSHEY, KOTIK, MELIO, R. MILLER, PRESTON,
WOJNAROSKI AND BENNINGHOFF, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
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 candidates.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 630.1 of the act of June 3, 1937
15 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code,
16 amended May 12, 2006 (P.L.178, No.45), is amended to read:
17 Section 630.1. Affidavits of Candidates.--Each candidate for
18 any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
19 school district or poor district office, or for the office of
20 United States Senator or Representative in Congress, selected as
21 provided in section 630 of this act, shall file with the
22 nomination certificate an affidavit stating--(a) his residence,
1 with street and number, if any, and his post-office address; (b)
2 his election district, giving city, borough, town or township;
3 (c) the name of the office for which he consents to be a
4 candidate; (d) that he is eligible for such office; (e) that he
5 will not knowingly violate any provision of this act, or of any
6 law regulating and limiting election expenses and prohibiting
7 corrupt practices in connection therewith; (f) unless he is a
8 candidate for judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia
9 Municipal Court or the Traffic Court of Philadelphia, or for the
10 office of school board in a district where that office is
11 elective or for the office of justice of the peace, that he is
12 not a candidate for the same office of any party or political
13 body other than the one [designated in such certificate] for
14 which he has registered and enrolled; (g) that he is aware of
15 the provisions of section 1626 of this act requiring election
16 and post-election reporting of campaign contributions and
17 expenditures; and (h) that he is not a candidate for an office
18 which he already holds, the term of which is not set to expire
19 in the same year as the office subject to the affidavit.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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