Any member or retirant who has not been proposed as a
candidate by an employee or retirant organization, as the case may be, and who
desires to be a candidate for election to the board may have the member's or
retirant's name placed on the ballot by submitting a petition to the board, if
the following conditions are met:
(1)
The petitioner shall be a general employee if the election is for a general
employee-trustee; a teacher, if the election is for a teacher-trustee; or a
retirant, if the election is for a retirant-trustee;
(2) The petition shall be accompanied by the
signatures of at least one hundred members or retirants of the system who
desire to have the petitioner's name on the ballot The signatures shall be
obtained on a form provided by the system. For identification and member or
retirant verification purposes the signatures shall be accompanied by the last
four digits of the member's or retirant's social security number, current
mailing address, and current or former employing agency of each person signing
the petition, and shall be certified by the petitioner;
(3) The petition must be received by the
system at its Honolulu office (together with a resume of the qualifications of
the petitioner containing not more than one hundred words, inclusive of the
petitioner's name) no later than 4:30 p.m. sixty days from the date the notice
to submit petition is published; and
(4) The system shall verify the petitioner's
status as a member or retirant of the system, as the case may be, and the
signatures and status as a member or retirant of the system, as the case may
be, of at least one hundred of the persons signing the petition.
The notice to submit petition shall be published in a
newspaper of general circulation in the State, shall announce the forthcoming
election, and shall contain other information as appropriate.
