§ 15-108. Designation and nomination of candidates. 1. Nominations of\ncandidates for elective village offices shall be made as provided in\nthis section.\n 2. a. Party nominations of candidates for village offices in any\ncounty shall be made at a party caucus or, if the rules of the county\ncommittee, heretofore or hereafter adopted consistent with the\nprovisions of this chapter so provide, at a primary election. If the\nrules of the county committee of any political party provide that party\nnominations for village offices of that party in any or all villages in\nthe county shall be made at a village primary election, such primary\nelection shall be held forty-nine days prior to the date of the village\nelection. In the event there is no village committee with a chairman,\nthe chairman of the county committee or such other person or body as the\nrules of such committee may provide, shall designate an enrolled member\nof the party who is a qualified voter of the village as the village\nelection chairman. Such village chairman shall have general party\nresponsibility for the conduct of the village caucus or primary\nelection. For the purposes of this section, a village shall be deemed to\nbe located within a county for the purposes of county political\norganization if more than fifty percent of the population of the village\nas shown by the last federal decennial, or special census resides in\nthat portion of the village located in that county. Such nomination\nshall be made not more than fifty-six, nor less than forty-nine days\nprior to the date of the village election.\n b. A notice of any village primary held for making party nominations\nof candidates for village offices to be filled at a village election\nshall be given by the proper party authorities by publication at least\nonce in each of the two weeks preceding the primary in at least one\nnewspaper of general circulation within the village.\n c. A notice of any party caucus held for making party nominations for\nvillage offices for village elections shall be given by the proper party\nauthorities by posting such notice in the public areas at the offices of\nthe village clerk and by filing such notice with such clerk at least ten\ndays preceding the day of the caucus and, either by newspaper\npublication thereof once within the village at least one week and not\nmore than two weeks preceding the caucus, or by posting such notice in\nsix public places in the village at least ten days preceding the day of\nthe caucus.\n d. The notice shall specify the time and place or places, and the\npurpose of such caucus or primary, including the offices for which\ncandidates will be nominated thereat. For such village primary or caucus\nthere shall be one or more polling places in each subdivision from which\na candidate is nominated. There shall be a chairman and a secretary and\ntellers for each such village primary or caucus, who shall be appointed\nby the appropriate party officials. No person shall participate in such\nprimary or caucus who is not a resident of the village and an enrolled\nvoter of the party conducting the primary or caucus. At any primary or\ncaucus in which nominees are chosen by vote of the people in attendance,\nthe person eligible and receiving the highest number of votes for an\noffice shall be deemed nominated. Such village primary or caucus shall\nnot be conducted at any expense to the village.\n e. Any party nomination made at any such caucus or village primary\nshall be evidenced by the filing with the village clerk of a certificate\nof nomination in the form prescribed by this chapter, as provided in\nsubdivision seven of this section. There shall be filed, together with\nsuch certificate, or within five days after the village clerk sends the\nnotice of failure to file prescribed by this paragraph, a list of\nenrolled members of the party who have participated in such caucus or\nprimary. If such list is not filed with such certificate, the v
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