655:27 Forwarding of Petitions and Assents. –
The clerks of cities and towns shall forward all primary petitions and assents to candidacy filed with them on the day of filing of the same to the secretary of state who shall retain them together with all primary petitions and assents to candidacy filed with him until January 1 following the holding of the primary at which time they may be destroyed.
Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.