Pennsylvania Statutes Title 25 P.S. Elections & Electoral Districts § 2913. Place and time of filing nomination papers

(a) Nomination papers for candidates for presidential electors, United States Senators, Representatives in Congress, and State offices, including senators, representatives and judges of courts of record, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Nomination papers for all other candidates shall be filed with the county boards of elections of the respective counties. Nomination papers for candidates for any office to be voted for by the electors of any city, borough, township, ward or school district which is situate in two or more counties shall be filed with the county board of the county in which the major number of the registered electors of such city, borough, township, ward or school district reside. Immediately after the last day for withdrawals of candidates nominated by nomination papers, the said county board shall certify to the county board of each other county involved a list of the names, addresses and occupations of the candidates so nominated to be voted for in two or more counties, together with the names or appellations of the political bodies nominating them.

(b) No nomination paper shall be circulated prior to the tenth Wednesday prior to the primary, and no signature shall be counted unless it bears a date affixed not earlier than the tenth Wednesday prior to the primary nor later than the second Friday subsequent to the primary.

<For information regarding consent decrees affecting the time for filing nomination papers notwithstanding subsec. (c), see Editor’s and Revisor’s Notes on the History Tab.>

(c) All nomination papers must be filed on or before the second Friday subsequent to the primary.

(d) The office in which a nomination paper is filed shall issue to the person filing the nomination paper a receipt containing the date and time of filing, the name of the candidate and the office for which he is a candidate.

(e) For the primary election in the year 1982, the time schedule relating to circulating and filing of nominating petitions, filing of objections, and casting of lots for position on the ballot or ballot labels for the office of Representative in Congress shall be delayed twenty-one (21) days from the times otherwise specified in this act and the time for withdrawal of candidates for such office shall be delayed fourteen (14) days from the time otherwise specified in this act.