A candidate who has filed a certificate of announcement and wishes to withdraw and decline to stand as a candidate for the office shall file a signed and notarized statement of withdrawal with the Recorder not later than the third Tuesday following the close of candidate filing. No candidate who files a statement of withdrawal after that time may have his or her name removed from the ballot. The ballot commissioners may, however, remove the name of a candidate who dies before the ballots are printed. For candidates who die after the ballots are printed, the Recorder shall provide notice of such fact on the list of candidates published in the newspapers as required by Section 103.12.
(1960 Code 3-106.2)