TITLE 34

ELECTIONS

CHAPTER 6

TIME OF ELECTIONS — OFFICERS ELECTED

34-612.  Election of attorney general — Qualifications. (1) At the general election, 1974, and every four (4) years thereafter, an attorney general shall be elected.

(2)  No person shall be elected to the office of attorney general unless he shall have attained the age of thirty (30) years at the time of his election, is admitted to the practice of law within the state, is a citizen of the United States and shall have resided within the state two (2) years next preceding his election.

(3)  Each candidate shall file his declaration of candidacy with the secretary of state.

(4)  Each candidate who files a declaration of candidacy shall at the same time pay a filing fee of two hundred dollars ($200) which shall be deposited in the general fund.

History:

[34-612, added 1970, ch. 140, sec. 92, p. 351; am. 1996, ch. 28, sec. 8, p. 70.]