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. Any person who is qualified to vote in the town of Huntington may be a candidate for an elective town office and shall be entitled to have his name printed in the official ballot to be used at a town election, if the person files nomination papers provided by the town clerk containing no less than 20 signatures of persons certified as voters of the town. The filing and certification of nomination papers and the conduct of the town election shall be in accordance with the General Laws regulating elections, unless otherwise provided in this act.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a primary or caucus for nomination of town officers shall not be held in the town of Huntington.