§ 991Procedure upon Ascertaining Offices

When the
board shall have ascertained all offices to be filled at the
ensuing municipal election, it shall proceed, as already
provided in this article, if it is still possible to secure
nominations for such offices in accordance with this article
at the primary election. But if notice of an impending change
in classification, as hereinbefore provided for, does not come
to the election board in time for it to ascertain the county
offices for the primary election, then all candidates who have
been or are nominated for county offices pursuant to subdivision
(a) or to subdivision (b) of this article shall, in all cases
where the offices for which they are nominated are the same
under the county's present classification and under its new
classification which is impending as a result of the Governor's
certification, be the candidates for those offices, except for
deaths or withdrawals provided for in this act: Provided,
however, That no office which is not automatically established
by law for the impending classification shall be deemed to be
established by this section. Any nomination, either for joint
county offices or for any separate county office, when such
offices or office will become either partly or wholly separate,
or will become joint with one or more presently separate county
office, upon the ensuing first Monday of January, shall not be
construed as a nomination for any of the said offices, but any
person being such a nominee may be nominated for any new office
or offices ascertained. All offices ascertained, which are to
be filled at the municipal election in anticipation of the new
classification and for which nominations have not been made
pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this subdivision, may
have candidates nominated for them as if vacancies had occurred
as to the candidates for such offices and as if they were
substituted nominations, in accordance with the procedure,
insofar as it is applicable, provided by sections 979, 980 and
981 (b) of this act, for substituted nominations, except that
the cause of vacancy set out in the nomination certificates
shall not be death or withdrawal, but that the office was not
ascertained for nominations in time for the regular procedures
established by this article.
   Upon the ascertainment of the offices to be filled at the
ensuing municipal election, if it shall appear that any
candidates have been or will be nominated for offices which are
to be abolished as a result of the impending change in
classification, the county board of elections shall proceed to
keep off or to remove from the ballots or ballot labels all
such nominations, together with the offices involved.
   Upon the ascertainment of offices to be filled at the
municipal election pursuant to notice of change in
classification, the board shall give notice of all such offices
by newspaper publication, at least twice, in accordance with
section 106 of this act, indicating whether the nominations
thereto were obtained at the primary election or are to be
obtained as hereinbefore provided. Notice of the November
election shall be given, as provided in section 1201 of this
act, and shall set forth, (1) any existing county offices which
will cease to exist on the ensuing first Monday of January,
indicating that those offices and any candidates therefor will
not appear as such upon the ballots or ballot labels; (2)
existing county offices which will subsist and the candidates

therefor; (3) county offices which will come into existence on
the ensuing first Monday of January and the candidates therefor.
   (991 added May 24, 1951, P.L.363, No.81)
          (e) Nominations to Fill Certain Vacancies
         (Hdg. added Aug. 26, 1953, P.L.1479, No.434)