Section 17-8-6

Party emblem — Submission; approval.

Each political party shall, by its state party convention or state executive committee, adopt, prepare and file with the Secretary of State, at least 60 days before each election for state officers, by engraving or otherwise, at least 150 copies of an emblem to be printed at the top of the column of such ballot assigned to such party, as a distinctive and characteristic heading thereof; and such emblem shall not be more than one inch and a half square. No party shall adopt an emblem similar in appearance to an emblem already adopted by another political party or organization, and the Secretary of State shall, upon the presentation or offer to him of any emblem which in his opinion is so like any other emblem already filed as to be likely to mislead any voter, forthwith notify the committee or any officer thereof or any person sending or offering such emblem of such similarity or resemblance and shall require such party, organization or committee to adopt, prepare and file another emblem. The emblem, once adopted, prepared and filed as aforesaid, shall continue the emblem of the party adopting the same until it is changed by the same or like authority as prepared, adopted and filed the original emblem, and the changed emblem, as prepared and adopted, if filed and accepted by the Secretary of State as in case of the original emblem.

(Code 1907, §374; Code 1923, §464; Code 1940, T. 17, §149.)