§ 994Number, Form and Requirements of Nomination Certificates to Fill Certain Vacancies

(a) Each political
party shall be entitled to nominate and to file nomination
certificates in accordance with the provisions of section nine
hundred ninety-three of this act for the purpose of supplying
as many candidates as each elector will be entitled to vote for
at the ensuing November election. Every nomination certificate
for a November election required under the provisions of section
nine hundred ninety-three of this act shall be in the form
prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and shall set
forth the following:
   (1) The office and district, if any, for which it is filed;
   (2) The cause of the vacancy;
   (3) The rule or rules of the political party setting forth
the provisions applicable to the nomination of a candidate or
candidates to fill said vacancy;
   (4) 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;
   (5) The name, residence and occupation of the candidate
duly nominated at said meeting.
   (b) Every such certificate of nomination shall be signed
by the presiding officer and the secretary or secretaries of
the committees, caucus or convention and shall be sworn or
affirmed to by them before any officer qualified to administer
oaths.
   (994 added Aug. 26, 1953, P.L.1479, No.434)