§ 6345. Nominations- Municipal Councils and Board of Education
TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 6: ELECTIONS § 6345. Nominations: Municipal Councils and Board of Education. (a) Candidates for Municipal Council and Board of Education shall be nomi- nated by petition designating the person seeking nomination and the office sought, containing the signatures, printed names, residences and mailing address- es of not less than five percent (5%) or 100, whichever is less, of the registered voters for each respective senatorial election district or mayoral islands, as the case may be, for each nonpartisan candidate. Each petition shall be accompanied by the signature of the person nominated, which shall constitute the nominee’s assent to be a candidate. (b) The procedures and requirements for independent nomination for Gover- nor and Lieutenant Governor set forth in this Chapter shall apply with respect to the nomination of nonpartisan candidates, as consistent with this section, except that the filing fee shall be one-hundred dollars ($100.00) for each Municipal Council and Board of Education candidate. Source: PL 12-18, § 2 (6345). Commission Comment: The Commission omitted the comma after the word “senatorial” in subsection (a).
Source: CNMI Law Revision Commission