19-212. Nomination petition; form; filing

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A. Unless the officer otherwise requests in writing, the name of the officer against whom a recall petition is filed shall be placed as a candidate on the official ballot without nomination. Other candidates for the office may be nominated to be voted on at the election and shall be placed on the official recall ballot after filing a nomination petition that is signed by a number of qualified electors that is equal to at least two percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for that office at the last election for that office. Nomination petition signers shall be qualified electors of the electoral district of the officer against whom the recall petition is filed.

B. If the officer against whom a recall petition is filed was appointed to the office or was deemed elected after an election was canceled due to the absence of opposing candidates as provided in section 15-424, 16-822, 48-802, 48-1012, 48-1208, 48-1404, 48-1908, 48-2010, 48-2107 or 48-2208, other candidates for the office to be voted on in the recall election shall be placed on the official recall ballot after filing a nomination petition that is signed by the number of qualified electors that is equal to at least one-half of one percent of the number of active registered voters in the jurisdiction or district represented by that elective officer as determined on the date of the last general election with not less than five signatures.

Nomination petition signers shall be qualified electors of the electoral district of the officer against whom the recall petition is filed.

C. The title and body of the nomination petition shall be substantially in the following form:

Nomination Petition--Recall Election

We, the undersigned electors, qualified to vote in the recall election mentioned herein, residents of the precinct indicated by the residence addresses given, and residents of the county of ______, state of Arizona, hereby nominate _______, who resides at ____, in the county of _______ to be a candidate in the recall election for the office of _______ to be held on _______(date)_________ , and we further declare that we have not signed and will not sign any nomination paper for any other person for such office.

The remainder of the petition shall be substantially in the form prescribed in section 16-315.

D. If recall petitions have been filed against more than one member of a multimember public body whose members serve at large, the nomination petition and paper of the other candidates shall state which member they oppose.

E. To each nomination petition shall be appended a certificate by a person who is qualified to register to vote pursuant to section 16-101 stating that to the best of his knowledge and belief all the signers of the nomination petition are qualified electors of the precinct which they give as their residence.

F. The nomination petition shall be filed not more than one hundred twenty days nor less than ninety days before the date of the recall election.

G. Any person who desires to be a candidate for the office at the recall election shall file a statement of interest with the appropriate filing officer for that office in the form prescribed by section 16-311. Any nomination petition signatures that are collected before the date the statement of interest is filed and before the date the recall application prescribed by section 19-202.01 is filed are invalid and subject to challenge.