{news} Legal notice required to be published?

[Ronna Stuller]

Chris,

David Bedell distributed this last year, and it may be what you're  
looking for.  It's certainly not relevant for the internal elections  
part of the convention, but may apply for our choice of Presidential  
candidate (I'm not sure... may be a question to ask the SOTS office).   
Hope this helps.

Ronna

A new act passed by the legislature, SB 1311, has several implications  
for
minor parties. First, we should be aware that starting with  
nominations for
the 2008 elections, not only will we have to notify election officials  
(SotS
or town clerk) about the meeting, but we will also have to announce it  
in
newspapers. This does not affect this year's nominations, but will  
affect
next year's. It may require purchase of an ad in the "Public Notices"
section.

http://cga.ct.gov/2007/ACT/PA/2007PA-00194-R00SB-01311-PA.htm

Substitute Senate Bill No. 1311
Public Act No. 07-194
AN ACT CONCERNING THE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY OF THE VOTING PROCESS.

Sec. 44. Section 9-452a of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2007):

Not later than five days before a minor party holds a party meeting to
nominate a candidate for public office, the presiding officer of such
meeting shall give written notice of the date, time, location and  
purpose of
the meeting to, in the case of a municipal office, the town clerk of the
municipality served by such office, or in the case of a state office or
district office, the Secretary of the State. Concomitantly, the  
presiding
officer of such meeting shall cause the written notice of such meeting  
to be
published in a newspaper with a general circulation in the applicable  
town
for such office. As used in this section, the terms "minor party",  
"state
office", "district office" and "municipal office" have the meanings  
assigned
to such terms in section 9-372.



On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Christopher Reilly wrote:

> Several people have mentioned to me that we are required to print in  
> the newspapers a legal notice of our upcoming convention.
>
> I've been trying to find the statute so that I can find out what the  
> time requirements are and also which newspapers we need to print the  
> notice it in.
>
> While we are required to provide written notice to the Secretary of  
> State (Chapter 153 - Sec. 9-452) at least five days before the  
> convention I can't find any additional requirements.
>
> The only thing that I can find that remotely approaches this is the  
> obligation to print a legal notice in a local paper for nominating  
> conventions for municipal office.  However, that section applies  
> only to major parties (Chapter 153 - Sec. 9-390).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --Chris Reilly
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