NRS293.180. Certificates of candidacy: Requirements; filing; acceptance of candidacy.

      1.  Ten or more registered voters may file a certificate of candidacy designating any registered voter as a candidate for:

      (a) Their major political party’s nomination for any partisan elective office, or as a candidate for nomination for any nonpartisan office other than a judicial office, not earlier than the first Monday in February of the year in which the election is to be held nor later than 5 p.m. on the first Friday in March; or

      (b) Nomination for a judicial office, not earlier than the first Monday in December of the year immediately preceding the year in which the election is to be held nor later than 5 p.m. on the first Friday in January of the year in which the election is to be held.

      2.  When the certificate has been filed, the officer in whose office it is filed shall notify the person named in the certificate. If the person named in the certificate files an acceptance of candidacy and pays the required fee, as provided by law, he or she is a candidate in the primary election in like manner as if he or she had filed a declaration of candidacy.

      3.  If a certificate of candidacy relates to a partisan office, all of the signers must be of the same major political party as the candidate designated.

      (Added to NRS by 1960, 244; A 1963, 1387; 1971, 439; 1983, 1117; 1987, 1366; 1989, 226, 1729; 2007, 215; 2009, 1265)