§ 168.254Office of county road commissioner; nominating petitions; signatures; form;

nonrefundable filing fee; nominating petitions; deposit and use of fee.
 Sec. 254.
    (1) To obtain the printing of the name of an individual as a candidate for nomination by a
 political party for the office of county road commissioner under a particular party heading
 upon the official primary ballots, there must be filed with the county clerk of the county
 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 in which county road commissioners are to be
 elected.
    (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 each candidate, in lieu of filing nominating petitions, a nonrefundable
 filing fee of $100.00 to be paid to the county clerk. Payment of the fee and certification of the
 name of the candidate 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.