§ 168.193Candidate for county offices; nominating petitions; signatures; form;

nonrefundable filing fee in lieu of nominating petitions; deposit and use of fee.
 Sec. 193.
    (1) To obtain the printing of the name of an individual as a candidate for nomination by a
 political party for an office named in section 191 under a particular party heading upon the
 official primary ballots, there must be filed with the county clerk nominating petitions signed
 by a number of qualified and registered electors residing within the county as determined
 under section 544f. Nominating petitions must be in the form prescribed in section 544c. The
 county clerk shall receive nominating petitions up to 4 p.m. of the fifteenth Tuesday before the
 August primary.


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    (2) To obtain the printing of the name of a candidate of a political party under the particular
 party's heading upon the primary election ballots in the various voting precincts of the county,
 there may be filed by the candidate, in lieu of filing nomination petitions, a nonrefundable
 filing fee of $100.00 to be paid to the county clerk. Payment of the fee and certification of the
 candidate's name paying the fee are governed by the same provisions as in the case of
 nominating petitions. The fee must be deposited in the general fund of the county and must be
 used only for the purchase and maintenance of voting equipment.