Candidates for municipal offices in any partisan or nonpartisan general election nominated by petition shall file the necessary petition with the municipal election commission seventy-five days before the general election concerned. The commission shall examine the petition and determine its validity not later than sixty days before the general election concerned. A nomination petition must bear the signatures of not less than five percent of the qualified electors of the geographical area of the office for which he offers as a candidate. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-99; 1975 (59) 692; 1977 Act No. 81 Section 4; 1988 Act No. 387, Section 2; 1998 Act No. 412, Section 2.
South Carolina Legal Code