Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 6 of chapter 53 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1988 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the last paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

No person may be nominated as an unenrolled candidate for any office to be filled at a state election, or a city or town election following a primary, if he has been enrolled as a member of a political party, as defined in section one of chapter fifty, during the time prior to the last day for filing nomination papers as provided in section ten, and on or after the day by which a primary candidate is required by section forty-eight to establish enrollment in a political party.

SECTION 2. Section 10 of said chapter 53, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

All certificates of nomination and nomination papers of candidates for the office of state representative, state senator, executive council, or county office shall be filed with the state secretary on or before the last Tuesday in May of the year in which a state election is to be held. Certificates of nomination or nomination papers for the office of senator in congress, representative in congress, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer and receiver-general, state auditor and state secretary, shall be filed on or before the last Tuesday in August of the year in which a state election is to be held. If there is a special election to fill the office of representative in congress, all certificates of nomination and nomination papers shall be filed on or before the tenth Tuesday preceding the day of such election. If there is a special election to fill any other state office, all certificates of nomination and nomination papers shall be filed on or before the ninth Tuesday preceding the day of such election. Nomination papers for presidential elector shall be filed on or before the last Tuesday in August of the year in which a presidential election is to be held.

SECTION 3. The last paragraph of section 48 of said chapter 53, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- No such certificate shall be issued to any such candidate who shall have been an enrolled member of any political party during the time prior to the last day for filing nomination papers as provided in section ten, and on or after the day by which a primary candidate is required by this section to establish enrollment in a political party.