§ 953Place and Time of Filing Nomination Papers

(a) Nomination papers for candidates for presidential
electors, United States Senators, Representatives in Congress,
and State offices, including senators, representatives and
judges of courts of record, shall be filed with the Secretary
of the Commonwealth. Nomination papers for all other candidates
shall be filed with the county boards of elections of the
respective counties. Nomination papers for candidates for any

office to be voted for by the electors of any city, borough,
township, ward or school district which is situate in two or
more counties shall be filed with the county board of the county
in which the major number of the registered electors of such
city, borough, township, ward or school district reside.
Immediately after the last day for withdrawals of candidates
nominated by nomination papers, the said county board shall
certify to the county board of each other county involved a
list of the names, addresses and occupations of the candidates
so nominated to be voted for in two or more counties, together
with the names or appellations of the political bodies
nominating them.
   (b) No nomination paper shall be circulated prior to the
tenth Wednesday prior to the primary, and no signature shall
be counted unless it bears a date affixed not earlier than the
tenth Wednesday prior to the primary nor later than the second
Friday subsequent to the primary. ((b) amended July 12, 1980,
P.L.649, No.134)
   (c) All nomination papers must be filed on or before the
second Friday subsequent to the primary. ((c) amended July 12,
1980, P.L.649, No.134)
   (d) The office in which a nomination paper is filed shall
issue to the person filing the nomination paper a receipt
containing the date and time of filing, the name of the
candidate and the office for which he is a candidate. ((d) added
Dec. 2, 1976, P.L.1221, No.269)
   (e) For the primary election in the year 1982, the time
schedule relating to circulating and filing of nominating
petitions, filing of objections, and casting of lots for
position on the ballot or ballot labels for the Office of
Representative in Congress shall be delayed twenty-one (21)
days from the times otherwise specified in this act and the
time for withdrawal of candidates for such office shall be
delayed fourteen (14) days from the time otherwise specified
in this act. ((e) added Mar. 3, 1982, P.L.127, No.42)