                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN AND TO WHOM FILINGS TO BE MADE (§ 24.2-522)

A. Declarations of candidacy, petitions, and receipts indicating the payment of
filing fees shall be filed not earlier than noon of the ninety-second day and
not later than 5:00 p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the primary.

B. Except as provided in subsection C, candidates for nomination shall file
their declarations, petitions, and receipts with the chairman or chairmen of the
several committees of the respective parties.

C. Any candidate for nomination for United States Senator, Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, or Attorney General shall file with the State Board (i) his
declaration of candidacy, (ii) the petitions for his candidacy, sealed in one or
more containers to which is attached a written statement under oath by the
candidate giving his name and the number of signatures on the petitions
contained in the containers, and (iii) a receipt indicating the payment of his
filing fee.
			The State Board shall transmit the material so filed to the state chairman of
the party of the candidate within 72 hours and not later than the seventy-fourth
day before the primary. The sealed containers containing the petitions for a
candidate may be opened only by the state chairman of the party of the
candidate.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 24-370 through 24-372, 24-374; 1960, c. 427; 1970, c.
462, §§ 24.1-184, 24.1-186; 1978, cc. 239, 778, § 24.1-186.1; 1983, c. 461;
1993, c. 641; 2003, c. 1015; 2010, cc. 449, 645; 2013, c. 443.