(A) The Clerk-Treasurer shall accept for filing nomination petitions containing the required number of signatures for candidates having those qualifications required by elective Village officers by this charter. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any candidate from having his/her own nominating petitions printed, but they must comply substantially with the form required by law.
(B) When petitions are filed by persons other than the person whose name appears thereon as a candidate, they may be accepted for filing only when accompanied by the written consent of the person in whose behalf the petition or petitions were circulated.
(C) The Clerk-Treasurer shall, within five (5) days after the final day and hour for receiving nomination petitions, determine the sufficiency of the signatures on each petition filed, and if he/she finds any petition does not contain the required number of legal signatures of registered electors, he shall immediately notify the candidate in writing, by registered mail with return receipt requested, of the insufficiency of his/her petition.
(D) Each petition which is found by the Clerk-Treasurer to contain the required number of signatures of registered electors shall be marked “In Order,” with the date thereof, and he/she shall so notify the candidate whose name appears thereon, in writing.