(A) Persons desiring to qualify as candidates for nomination for any elective office under this charter shall file a petition therefore with the Clerk Treasurer signed by not less than twenty-five (25) nor more than fifty (50) registered electors of the village not later than 5:00 p.m. on the seventh (7th) Monday prior to the date of the regular or special village election.
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(B) Official blank petitions in substantially the same form as required by state law for state and county officers, except for references to party, shall be prepared and furnished by the Clerk-Treasurer. Before the Clerk-Treasurer distributes any nomination petitions to any person, he/she may enter thereon in ink the name of the person desiring to become a candidate for office in the village, or the person in whose behalf the petition is to be circulated, and the name of the office for which he/she is a candidate.
(C) Nomination petitions for the purpose of filling a vacancy shall so state in connection with the name of the office for which the petition is to be circulated. The Clerk-Treasurer shall publish notice of the last day and time for filing nomination petitions at least (1) one week before, and not more than three (3) weeks before, that date.
(D) No person shall sign his name to a greater number of petitions for any one office than there will be persons elected to said office. Where any name appears on more petitions than there are candidates to be elected to said office, such name shall not be counted upon any petition for that office.