§ 168.386Metropolitan district officer; nominating petition; form; signature of elector;

examination and investigation; withdrawal.
 Sec. 386.
    (1) For an individual's name to appear on the official ballot as a candidate for metropolitan
 district officer, the candidate shall file a nominating petition and the affidavit required by
 section 558 with the metropolitan district election coordinator not later than 4 p.m. on the
 fifteenth Tuesday before the election date. The nominating petitions shall be signed by a
 number of qualified and registered electors residing in the metropolitan district as determined
 under section 544f.
    (2) The nominating petition shall be substantially in the form prescribed in section 544c,
 except that the petition shall be nonpartisan and shall include the following opening
 paragraph:
  We, the undersigned, registered and qualified voters
  of the city or township of
  _______________________________
  and residents of the _______________________________,
  the
                                                                     (legal name of metropolitan
                                                                     district)
  county of _____________________________, state of
  Michigan,
  nominate
  __________________________________________________
                                                                     (name of candidate)
  _______________________________                                    ________________________,
  (street address)                                                   (city or township)
  a registered and qualified elector of the metropolitan district
  as an officer of the legislative body of the metropolitan
  district for a term of ____ years, expiring _____, to be
  voted for at the election to be held on the ______ day of
  _________________________,                                         ___________________.
  (month)                                                            (year)
 (3) An elector shall not sign petitions for more candidates than are to be elected.
    (4) A nominating petition filed under this chapter is subject to the examination and
 investigation process prescribed in section 552 as to its sufficiency and the validity and
 genuineness of the signatures on the nominating petition, and to the other procedures
 prescribed in that section relevant to a petition filed under this chapter.



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    (5) After a nominating petition is filed for a candidate for metropolitan district officer, the
 candidate is not permitted to withdraw unless a written withdrawal notice, signed by the
 candidate, is filed with the metropolitan district election coordinator not later than 4 p.m. of
 the third day after the last day for filing the nominating petition.