KRS § 118.315 — KY Code / Title X / Chapter 118 / Section 118.315
118.315 Nomination for regular election by petition -- Form of petition -- Examination of petition -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge
Status: in_force

118.315 Nomination for regular election by petition -- Form of petition --

Examination of petition -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge.

(1) A candidate for any office to be voted for at any regular election may be nominated

by a petition of electors qualified to vote for him or her, complying with the

provisions of subsection (2) of this section. No person whose registration status is

as a registered member of a political party shall be eligible to election as an

independent, or political organization, or political group candidate, nor shall any

person be eligible to election as an independent, or political organization, or

political group candidate whose registration status was as a registered member of a

political party on January 1 immediately preceding the regular election for which

the person seeks to be a candidate. This restriction shall not apply to candidates to

those offices specified in KRS 118.105(6), for supervisor of a soil and water

conservation district, for candidates for mayor or legislative body in cities of the

home rule class, or to candidates participating in nonpartisan elections.

(2) The form of the petition shall be prescribed by the State Board of Elections. It shall

be signed by the candidate and by registered voters from the district or jurisdiction

from which the candidate seeks nomination. The petition shall include a

declaration, sworn to by the candidate, that he or she possesses all the constitutional

and statutory requirements of the office for which the candidate has filed.

Signatures for a petition of nomination for a candidate seeking any office,

excluding President of the United States in accordance with KRS 118.591(1), shall

not be affixed on the document to be filed prior to the first Wednesday after the first

Monday in November of the year preceding the year in which the office will appear

on the ballot. Signatures for nomination papers shall not be affixed on the document

to be filed prior to the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November of the

year preceding the year in which the office will appear on the ballot. A petition of

nomination for a state officer, or any officer for whom all the electors of the state

are entitled to vote, shall contain five thousand (5,000) petitioners; for a

representative in Congress from any congressional district, or for any officer from

any other district except as herein provided, four hundred (400) petitioners; for a

county officer, member of the General Assembly, or Commonwealth's attorney, one

hundred (100) petitioners; for a soil and water conservation district supervisor,

twenty-five (25) petitioners; for a city officer or board of education member, two

(2) petitioners; and for an officer of a division less than a county, except as herein

provided, twenty (20) petitioners. It shall not be necessary that the signatures of the

petition be appended to one (1) paper. Each petitioner shall include the date he or

she affixes the signature, address of residence, and date of birth. Failure of a voter

to include the signature affixation date, date of birth, and address of residence shall

result in the signature not being counted. A petitioner for the nomination of a

candidate may be counted for every petition to which his or her signature is affixed.

(3) Titles, ranks, or spurious phrases shall not be accepted on the filing papers and shall

not be printed on the ballots as part of the candidate's name; however, nicknames,

initials, and contractions of given names may be accepted as the candidate's name.

(4) The Secretary of State and county clerks shall examine the petitions of all

candidates who file with them to determine whether each petition is regular on its

face. If there is an error, the Secretary of State or the county clerk shall notify the

candidate by certified mail within twenty-four (24) hours of filing.

(5) A judge who elected to retire as a Senior Status Special Judge in accordance with

KRS 21.580 shall not become a candidate or a nominee for any elected office

during the five (5) year term prescribed in KRS 21.580(1)(a)1., regardless of the

number of days served by the judge acting as a Senior Status Special Judge.