§ 910Affidavits of Candidates

Each candidate for
any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
ward, school district, poor district, election district, party
office, party delegate or alternate, or for the office of United
States Senator or Representative in Congress, shall file with
his nomination petition his affidavit stating--(a) his

residence, with street and number, if any, and his post-office
address; (b) his election district, giving city, borough, town
or township; (c) the name of the office for which he consents
to be a candidate; (d) that he is eligible for such office; (e)
that he will not knowingly violate any provision of this act,
or of any law regulating and limiting nomination and election
expenses and prohibiting corrupt practices in connection
therewith; (f) unless he is a candidate for judge of a court
of common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the
office of school director in a district where that office is
elective or for the office of justice of the peace that he is
not a candidate for nomination for the same office of any party
other than the one designated in such petition; (g) if he is a
candidate for a delegate, or alternate delegate, member of State
committee, National committee or party officer, that he is a
registered and enrolled member of the designated party; (h) if
he is a candidate for delegate or alternate delegate the
presidential candidate to whom he is committed or the term
"uncommitted"; (i) that he is aware of the provisions of section
1626 of this act requiring pre-election and post-election
reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures; and (j)
that he is not a candidate for an office which he already holds,
the term of which is not set to expire in the same year as the
office subject to the affidavit. In cases of petitions for
delegate and alternate delegate to National conventions, the
candidate's affidavit shall state that his signature to the
delegate's statement, as hereinafter set forth, if such
statement is signed by said candidate, was affixed to the sheet
or sheets of said petition prior to the circulation of same.
In the case of a candidate for nomination as President of the
United States, it shall not be necessary for such candidate to
file the affidavit required in this section to be filed by
candidates, but the post-office address of such candidate shall
be stated in such nomination petition.
   (910 amended Oct. 31, 2019, P.L.552, No.77)
  Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided
      that any and all references in any other law to a
      "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be
      deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.