5 U.S.C. § 1503
Nonpartisan candidacies permitted
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 1503, Nonpartisan candidacies permitted, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/426603
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Section 1502(a)(3) of this title does not prohibit any State or local officer or employee from being a candidate in any election if none of the candidates is to be nominated or elected at such election as representing a party any of whose candidates for Presidential elector received votes in the last preceding election at which Presidential electors were selected.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally