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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 119.056 — Alteration, mutilation, or suppression of nomination papers

119.056. Alteration, mutilation, or suppression of nomination papers

Any person in possession of nomination papers for attaining ballot access entitled to be filed under the statutes relating to primaries, regular and special elections who wrongfully alters, mutilates or suppresses such papers, or wrongfully fails to cause them to be filed at the proper time in the proper office, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Source notes

Effective: July 15, 2008

History and annotations

Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 79, sec. 9, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 68, effective July 13, 1990. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 67.

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