TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT
DIVISION 6: ELECTIONS
§ 6346. Nominations: Attorney General. (a) Candidates for Attorney General shall be nominated by petition designating the person seeking nomination and the office sought, containing the signatures, printed names, residences and mailing addresses of not less than at least two hundred signatures, printed names, residences and mailing addresses registered in the Commonwealth for each nonpartisan candidate for Attorney General. Each petition shall be accompanied by the signature of the person nominated, which shall constitute the nominee’s assent to be a candidate. (b) The procedures and requirements for independent nomination for Governor and Lieutenant Governor set forth in this Chapter shall apply with respect to the nomination of nonpartisan candidates, as consistent with this section, except that the filing fee shall be five hundred dollars for each Attorney General candidate. Source: PL 18-46 § 3(h) (Apr. 23, 2014), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission struck the figure “200” from subsection (a) pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g). The Commission struck an extraneous dash and corrected the spelling of the word “nominee’s” in subsection (a) pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g). The Commission corrected the phrase “fivehundred ($500) filing fee” in subsection (b) to “five hundred dollars” pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(e) and (g).