§ 3513.255

service center.
Effective: July 2, 2010
Legislation: House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly


This section is subject to section 3513.256 of the Revised Code. The name of each candidate for
election as a member of a governing board of an educational service center shall appear on the
nonpartisan ballot. Each nominating petition shall be signed by fifty qualified electors who reside in
one of the following, as applicable:


(A) The school districts over which the educational service center governing board has jurisdiction,
in the case of any candidate running for a position on any educational service center governing
board other than a governing board established in accordance with section 3311.054 of the Revised
Code;


(B) The subdistrict in which the candidate is running, in the case of a position on a governing board
of an educational service center established in accordance with section 3311.054 of the Revised
Code.


Each nominating petition shall be filed with the board of elections of the county in which the central
administrative offices of the educational service center governing board are located not later than
four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the general election, provided that no such 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 position as a
member of a governing board of an educational service center or position as a member of a city,
local, or exempted village board of education, or for a municipal or township office. 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



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finds the number of signatures accepted exceeds three times the minimum signatures required. A
board of elections may discontinue verifying petitions when the number of verified signatures
equals the minimum required number of qualified signatures.




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