§ ORS § 249.720Information to be contained in certificate of nomination

(1) A certificate of nomination
shall contain:

(a) The name by
which the candidate is commonly known. A candidate may use a nickname in
parentheses in connection with the full name.

(b) Address
information as required by the Secretary of State by rule.

(c) The office,
and department or position number if any, for which the candidate is nominated.

(d) The name of
the minor political party, if any, that nominated the candidate.

(e) If the
candidate is nominated for a partisan office by an assembly of electors or
individual electors, the word “nonaffiliated” and a statement that the
candidate has not been a member of a major or minor political party during at
least 180 days before the deadline for filing the certificate of nomination.

(f) A statement
that the candidate will qualify if elected.

(g) The signature
of the candidate.

(h) A statement
of the candidate’s occupation, educational and occupational background and
prior governmental experience.

(2) The Secretary
of State shall ensure that the template for a certificate of nomination
provides the candidate with the option to:

(a) Provide the
candidate’s race and ethnicity; and

(b) Limit the
public accessibility of the candidate’s residence address in the manner set
forth in ORS 249.021.

(3) For
certificates of nomination of candidates for electors of President and Vice
President of the United States, the names of the candidates for President and
Vice President the candidates represent may be added to the name of the minor
political party or the word “nonaffiliated,” as the case may be. The names of
all the candidates of a minor political party, or nonaffiliated candidates, for
electors of President and Vice President may be upon the same certificate of
nomination.

(4) A certificate
of nomination made by an assembly of electors shall be signed by the presiding
officer and secretary of the nominating convention of the assembly. A
certificate of nomination made by a minor political party shall be signed by an
officer of the party. An affidavit shall be made on the certificate by the
presiding officer and secretary of the nominating convention of the assembly or
by the officer of the minor political party and signed and acknowledged by them
before a notary public. The affidavit shall be that the statements in the
certificate of nomination and related documents are true. With respect to an
assembly of electors, the affidavit shall state that the assembly satisfied the
requirements of ORS 249.735. [Amended by 1957 c.608 §110; 1961 c.336 §3; 1973
c.841 §2; 1975 c.678 §24; 1979 c.190 §127; 1981 c.142 §1; 1991 c.719 §8; 1993
c.797 §13; 1995 c.607 §19; 2005 c.797 §35; 2019 c.449 §8; 2023 c.528 §4]