Connecticut General Statutes 9-453i – Submission to town clerk or Secretary of the State
(a) Each page of a nominating petition proposing a candidate for an office to be filled at a regular election shall be submitted to the appropriate town clerk not later than four o’clock p.m. on the ninetieth day preceding the day of such regular election, or to the Secretary of the State not later than four o’clock p.m. on the ninety-seventh day preceding the day of such regular election.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 9-453i
- Election: means any electors' meeting at which the electors choose public officials by use of voting tabulators or by paper ballots as provided in section 9-272. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Primary: means a meeting of the enrolled members of a political party and, when applicable under section 9-431, unaffiliated electors, held during consecutive hours at which such members or electors may, without assembling at the same hour, vote by secret ballot for candidates for nomination to office or for town committee members. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
- Regular election: means any state or municipal election. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Special election: means any election not a regular election. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
(b) Each page of a nominating petition proposing a candidate for an office to be filled at a special election, except petitions filed under section 9-216, shall be submitted to the appropriate town clerk not later than four o’clock p.m. on the seventieth day preceding the day of such special election, or to the Secretary of the State not later than four o’clock p.m. on the seventy-seventh day preceding the day of such special election, unless (1) such special election is held in conjunction with a regular election, and (2) the writ of such special election is issued at least fourteen days before the final day for the filing of primary petitions for municipal offices to be filled at such regular election pursuant to section 9-405, in which case the deadline for submitting such nominating petition pages shall be the same as the deadline for such submission in connection with such regular election as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Each page of a nominating petition proposing a candidate at an election shall be so submitted either (1) to the town clerk of the town in which the signers reside, or (2) to the Secretary of the State, in which case the Secretary of the State shall submit the petition pages to the appropriate town clerk, for the purpose of certifying the signatures on such pages.
(d) On such last day for submitting such nominating petition pages, in each town in which an election is to be held, the office of the town clerk shall open not later than one o’clock p.m. and remain open until at least four o’clock p.m., and the town clerk or the assistant town clerk shall be present therein.