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2022 Op. Ky. Att'y Gen. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.sag/sagky0056 and id is 1 raw text is: Commonwealth of Kentucky
Office of the Attorney General

Daniel Cameron
Attorney General

Capitol Building, Suite 118
700 Capital Avenue
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
(502) 696-5300
Fax: (502) 564-2894

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January 4, 2022
OAG 22-01
Whether a county clerk may reject a candidate's nomination
papers if the candidate does not also file the Statement of
Spending Intent and Appointment of Campaign Treasurer form.
Jason Denny, Anderson County Clerk
President, Kentucky County Clerks Association
Carmine G. Iaccarino
General Counsel
A clerk may not reject a candidate's nomination papers if the
candidate does not also provide his or her Statement of Spending
Intent and Appointment of Campaign Treasurer form.

Opinion of the Attorney General
The filing deadline for 2022 elections is January 7, 2022.1 See KRS 118.165;
KRS 118A.060(2); KRS 83A.045. With that date fast approaching, and in the wake of
legislative changes made by the 2019 General Assembly in its Regular Session, the
Kentucky County Clerks Association asks whether a county clerk may reject a
candidate's nomination papers-the form required to declare one's candidacy
without also receiving that candidate's Statement of Spending Intent and
Appointment of Campaign Treasurer form. For the reasons below, a clerk may not
reject a candidate's nomination papers simply because the candidate does not also

1   The General Assembly may delay the filing deadline for 2022 elections.

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