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PUBLIC LAW 91-405-SEPT. 22, 1970

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law or rules on Representatives. The Delegate shall be elected to serve during each Congress. (b) No individual may hold the office of Delegate to the House of Qualifications. Representatives from the District of Columbia unless on the date of his election— (1) he is a qualified elector (as that term is defined in section 2(2) of the District of Columbia Election Act) of the District of 75 Stat.^820^'' Columbia; D.c.'code i(2) he is at least twenty-five years of age; ^^°^" (^) he holds no other paid public office; and (4) he has resided in the District of Columbia continuously since the beginning of the three-year period ending on such date. He shall forfeit his office upon failure to maintain the qualifications required by this subsection. AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT O F COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT

SEC. 203. (a) Section 2 of the District of Columbia Election Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1102) is amended by adding at the end thereof ^^ Stat. 103. the following new paragraph: "(6) The term 'Delegate' means the Delegate to the House of "delegate." Representatives from the District of Columbia." (b) Subsections (h), (i), (j), and (k) of section 8 of the District eiS^provi-"'^ of Columbia Election Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1108) are redesignated sions^ 82 Stat. 103. as subsections (n), (o), (p), and (q), respectively, and the following new subsections are inserted after subsection (g): " (h) The Delegate shall be elected by the people of the District of Columbia in a general election. The nomination and election of the Delegate and the candidates for office of Delegate shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. Each candidate for the office of Delegate in any general election shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection (j) of this section and in section 10(d), have been elected as ggf"^ ^^' ^^'^' such a candidate by the next preceding primary or party runoff election. No political party shall be qualified to hold a primary election to select candidates tor election to the office of Delegate in a general election unless, in the next preceding election year, at least seven thousand five hundred votes were cast in the general election for a candidate of such party for the office of Delegate or for its candidates for electors of President and Vice President. " (i) Each candidate in a primary election for the office of Delegate nom?n"aang^^^*°"' shall be nominated for such office by a petition (1) filed with the petition. Board not later than forty-five days before the date of such primary election; (2) signed by at least two thousand persons who are duly c. registered under section 7 and who are of the same political party as no?^ the nominee; and (3) accompanied by a filing fee of $100. Such fee may be refunded only in the event that the candidate withdraws his nomination by writing received hj the Board not later than three days after the date on which nominations are closed under this subsection. A nominating petition for a candidate in a primary election for the office of Delegate may not be circulated for signature before the ninety-ninth day preceding the date of such election and may not be filed with the Board before the seventieth day preceding such date. The Board may prescribe rules with respect to the preparation

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