Provided that a person nominated as a candidate for filling up a seat in a Municipality shall not be nominated as candidate in another ward of the same Municipality.

Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination.— 1. On or before the date appointed under clause (a) of section 105 each candidate shall, either in person or by his proposer, between the hours of eleven o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon deliver to the Returning Officer at the place specified in this behalf in the notice issued under section 106 a nomination paper completed in the prescribed form and signed by the candidate and by an elector of the ward as proposer. (1A) Every candidate submitting nomination under sub-section (1) shall not be deemed to be qualified to be elected to fill that post unless he submits, along with such nomination, the details regarding his educational qualification, criminal cases in which he is involved at the time of submission of nominations, property owned by him and other members of his family, liabilities including arrears due from him to any Public Sector Undertaking or Government or Local Self Government Institutions and whether disqualified for defection under the Kerala Local Authorities (Prohibition of Defection) Act, 1999 in the form and manner as may be prescribed.

1. (2) In a ward where the seat is reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes a candidate shall not be deemed to be qualified to be chosen to fill that seat unless his nomination paper contains a declaration by him specifying the particular caste or tribe of which he is a member.
2. (3) Where the candidate is a person who, having held any office referred to in section 86 has been dismissed or removed and a period of five years has not elapsed since the dismissal or removal, such person shall not be deemed to be duly nominated as a candidate unless his nomination paper is accompanied by a certificate issued in the prescribed manner by the State Election Commission to the effect that he has not been dismissed or removed for corruption or disloyalty.
3. (4) On the presentation of a nomination paper, the Returning Officer shall satisfy himself that the names and electoral roll numbers of the candidate and his proposer as entered in the nomination paper are the same as those entered in the electoral roll: Provided that no misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error is regarded to the name of the candidate or his proposer or any other person or in regard to any place, mentioned in the electoral roll or the nomination paper and no clerical, technical or printing error in regard to the electoral roll numbers of any such person in the electoral roll or the nomination paper, shall affect the full operation of the electoral roll or the nomination paper with respect to such person or place in any case where the description in regard to the name of the person or place is such as to be commonly understood: and the Returning Officer shall permit any such misnomer or inaccurate description or clerical, technical or printing error to be corrected and were necessary, direct that any such misnomer, inaccurate description, clerical, technical or printing error in the electoral roll or in the nomination paper shall be overlooked.
4. (5) Nothing in this section shall prevent any candidate from being nominated by more than one nomination paper: