§ 3513.02Certificate of nomination when no primary necessary

If, in any odd-numbered year, no valid declaration of candidacy is filed for nomination as a
candidate of a political party for election to any of the offices to be voted for at the general election
to be held in such year, or if the number of persons filing such declarations of candidacy for
nominations as candidates of one political party for election to such offices does not exceed, as to
any such office, the number of candidates which such political party is entitled to nominate as its
candidates for election to such office, then no primary election shall be held for the purpose of
nominating party candidates of such party for election to offices to be voted for at such general
election and no primary ballots shall be provided for such party. If, however, the only office for
which there are more valid declarations of candidacy filed than the number to be nominated by a
political party, is the office of councilperson in a ward, a primary election shall be held for such
party only in the ward or wards in which there is a contest, and only the names of the candidates for
the office of councilperson in such ward shall appear on the primary ballot of such political party.


The election officials whose duty it would have been to provide for and conduct the holding of such
primary election, declare the results thereof, and issue certificates of nomination to the persons
entitled thereto if such primary election had been held shall declare each of such persons to be
nominated as of the date of the ninetieth day before the primary election, issue appropriate
certificates of nomination to each of them, and certify their names to the proper election officials, in
order that their names may be printed on the official ballots provided for use in the succeeding
general election in the same manner as though such primary election had been held and such persons
had been nominated at such election.




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