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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="4-210" title_number="4" title_name="In General" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Incorporation of Municipalities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An election of officers for a proposed municipality shall be conducted at the same time and place as the referendum on the question of incorporation and is subject to the same procedures and practices.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An individual may not be initially nominated or elected to a municipal office unless the individual qualifies under the requirements specified for that office in the proposed municipal charter.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A candidate for an elected office of a proposed municipality shall be nominated by a certificate of nomination filed by the candidate with the county board of elections.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The certificate of nomination shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the name and residence address of the candidate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the office that the candidate seeks.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>After certificates of nomination by candidates for municipal office are filed, the county board of elections shall prepare ballots to allow the registered voters of the area proposed to be incorporated to vote on the candidates who are nominated under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
