13-35-221. Improper nominations. (1) No person may pay or promise valuable consideration to another, in any manner or form, for the purpose of inducing him to be or to refrain from or to cease being a candidate, and no person may solicit or receive any payment or promise from another for such purpose.
     (2) No person, in consideration of any gift, loan, offer, promise, or agreement, as mentioned in subsection (1), may:
     (a) allow himself to be nominated or refuse to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate at an election;
     (b) become, by himself or in combination with any other person or persons, a candidate for the purpose of defeating the nomination or election of any other person, without a bona fide intent to obtain the office; or
     (c) withdraw if he has been so nominated.
     (3) Upon complaint made to any district court, the judge shall issue a writ of injunction restraining the officer whose duty it is to prepare official ballots for a nominating election from placing the name of a person thereon as a candidate for nomination to any office if the judge is convinced that:
     (a) the person has sought the nomination or seeks to have his name presented to the voters as a candidate for nomination by any political party for any mercenary or venal consideration or motive; and
     (b) his candidacy for the nomination is not in good faith.

     History: En. 23-47-129 by Sec. 29, Ch. 334, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 23-47-129.