Examination of nominating petitions by city clerk.
19.   Section 6.The clerk shall examine said petitions and ascertain whether they are signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, and execute a certificate stating the result of his examination, and immediately upon the expiration of the time of filing the statements and petitions for candidacies the clerk shall cause to be published in proper form, the names of the persons for whom proper petitions have been filed designating the office for which they are candidates in one issue of a newspaper published in said city, and the clerk shall thereupon cause the primary ballots to be printed.
Editor’s note:
   Per M.C.L.A. § 168.322, the candidate filing deadline or certification deadline is 4:00 p.m. on the fifteenth Tuesday before the May election.
   Res. 2016-243, based on M.C.L.A. § 168.642, eliminated the February primary.