§ 3513.253Nomination for officers of township

Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a township shall be made only by
nominating petitions, unless a majority of the electors of such township have petitioned for a
primary election. The nominating petitions of nonpartisan candidates for township trustee and
township fiscal officer shall be signed by not less than twenty-five qualified electors of the
township. Such petition shall be filed with the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the
ninetieth day before the day of the general election, provided that no such nominating petition
shall be accepted for filing if it appears to contain signatures aggregating in number more
than three times the minimum number of signatures required by this section. A board of
elections shall not accept for filing a nominating petition of a person if that person, for the
same election, has already filed a declaration of candidacy, a declaration of intent to be a
write-in candidate, or a nominating petition, or has become a candidate through party
nomination at a primary election or by the filling of a vacancy under section 3513.30 or
3513.31 of the Revised Code for any other township office, or for a municipal office, for
member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education, or for member of a
governing board of an educational service center. When a petition of a candidate has been
accepted for filing by a board of elections, the petition shall not be deemed invalid if, upon
verification of signatures contained in the petition, the board of elections finds the number of
signatures accepted exceeds three times the minimum number of signatures required. A
board of elections may discontinue verifying signatures when the number of verified
signatures on a petition equals the minimum required number of qualified signatures.




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