12-5-1.4. Nominating petitions of new party primary candidates.
If a political party qualifies for the primary ballot under §12-5-1, each candidate intending to participate in a primary election shall file a nominating petition pursuant to §12-6-4. In each primary election following the qualification of a political party and prior to the next gubernatorial election, each:
(1)State and federal candidate for that party shall file a petition bearing signatures of at least two hundred fifty registered voters in that party; and
(2)Legislative and county candidate for that party shall file a petition bearing signatures of at least five registered voters in that party.
Source: SL 1984, ch 107, §1A; SL 1993, ch 109, §2; SL 2007, ch 74, §3; SL 2015, ch 77, §24 rejected Nov. 8, 2016.