A. Declaration of Candidacy and Nomination Petition. Any person qualified to serve in an elective office in the borough may have the person’s name placed on the ballot as a candidate for elective office by filing a nomination petition and declaration of candidacy on forms prescribed and provided by the borough clerk. The nomination petition must be signed by no fewer than 10 voters qualified to vote in the borough. Signatures to a nomination petition need not all be appended to one page. To each separate page of a petition shall be attached an affidavit of the person circulating the petition stating that each signature appended thereto was made in his or her presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. To each nominating petition shall be attached declaration of candidacy stating that the candidate named in the petition consents to serve if elected to the office for which the person is nominated. The nominating petition and declaration of candidacy must be filed with the borough clerk or a duly authorized representative no sooner than August 1st and no later than August 20th. The candidate’s signature on the declaration of candidacy shall be notarized.

The nominating petition shall be in substantially the following form:

Nominating Petition

We, the undersigned qualified voters of the Haines Borough, in the State of Alaska, hereby nominate and sponsor ___________, who resides in the Haines Borough, for the office of ___________, and ask that his/her name be placed on the October ____, 20__ General Election ballot.

We individually certify that we are qualified to vote in the named election.

_________________________________

Name Residence Address Date Signed

(Followed by at least 10 lines for signatures.)

The declaration of candidacy shall be in substantially the following form:

Declaration of Candidacy

I, _______________________________, declare that I reside at __________________________ in the Haines Borough, Alaska; that I am a registered voter in the borough; that I have resided in the borough continuously for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the date of the election for which I am being nominated and meet the definition of resident in Borough Charter 18.09(J) and the residency standards in HBC 11.24.010.

I declare myself a candidate for the office of ________________, and request that my name be printed upon the official ballot for the borough election to be held on the _______ day of ________________, 20___.

SIGNATURE:____________________

FOLLOWED BY A NOTARIZATION BLOCK.

B. Declaration of Disclosure. As described in HBC 2.06.035, each candidate for elected borough office, except an incumbent seeking reelection with a current disclosure statement on file, must file a financial disclosure statement at the time the candidate files for office. Refusal or failure of a candidate to file the required financial disclosure statement before the end of the time period for filing a declaration of candidacy shall cause the candidate’s declaration of candidacy to be rejected and the candidate disqualified. (Ord. 21-10-599 § 4; Ord. 14-04-373 § 4)