§ 979Substituted Nominations by Parties

Any
vacancy happening or existing after the date of the primary in
any party nomination, by reason of the death or withdrawal of
any candidate after nomination, or by reason of the death before
or on the day of the primary election of a candidate for
nomination who had received a plurality of votes of his party
electors cast for the office for which he sought nomination,
may be filled by a substituted nomination made by such committee
as is authorized by the rules of the party to make nominations
in the event of vacancies on the party ticket: Provided,
however, That no substitute nomination certificate shall
nominate any person who has already been nominated by any
political party or by any other political body for the same
office. Upon the making of any such substituted nomination, in
accordance with the party rules, it shall be the duty of the
chairman and secretary or secretaries of the party committee
making the nomination to file with the Secretary of the
Commonwealth in the case of United States Senator,
Representative in Congress and all State officers, including
judges of courts of records, senators and representatives, and
with the proper county board of elections in the case of other
offices, a nomination certificate which shall be signed by the
chairman and secretary or secretaries of the said committee,
and which shall set forth the following:
   (a) The office and district, if any, for which it is filed;
(b) the cause of the vacancy; (c) the rule or rules of the
political party, setting forth the provisions applicable to a
substituted nomination; (d) that a quorum of the committee,
caucus or convention, as provided by the party rules, duly
convened, and the names of those present at said meeting, or
their proxies; that said persons are the duly appointed or
elected members of said committee, caucus or convention; (e)

the name, residence and occupation of the candidate duly
nominated at said meeting. Every such certificate of nomination
shall be sworn to or affirmed by the chairman and secretary or
secretaries before an officer qualified to administer oaths.
   (979 amended May 6, 1943, P.L.196, No.100)