Nominations for public office shall be by petition. Said petitions shall be filed with the Municipal Election Commission by 12:00 noon 75 days before the election and shall bear the signatures of not less than 5% of the number of qualified registered electors of the town. Each petition shall also contain a statement of the purpose of the petition, the name of the candidate, the office sought, the date of the election, signature and printed name of the voter, the address of residence where registered and precinct of the voter of those signing and shall be on good quality original bond paper sized eight and one-half inches by 14 inches. No single petition should contain the signature of registered voters from different counties. The signatures of registered voters should be numbered consecutively. Petitions with more than one page must have pages consecutively numbered when filing with the Municipal Clerk. All petition candidates must also submit their statement of economic interest to the Municipal Election Commission when filing their petition.
(Prior Code, § 6-6) (Ord. passed 3-19-1979; Ord. passed 10-19-2004)
Statutory reference:
Filing of economic interest statements with petition, see S.C. Code § 8-13-910