(a) If no candidate receives 50% of the votes cast for the particular office in question, a runoff election shall be held within forty-five days after certification of the results of the election in question as now provided by law and as amended and supplemented from time to time. Unless otherwise specified in this Charter, the two candidates who receive the highest number of votes cast for the office in question shall automatically become the candidates at the runoff election and the filing of declarations of candidacy is dispensed with.
(b) The Council shall by resolution fix the date of the runoff election and specify the offices to be filled and the names of the candidates therefor. The resolution shall be published once, at least seven days before the runoff election date. Otherwise, no publications are required in connection with runoff elections.
(c) Only such voting precincts and procedures will be reactivated for a runoff as will be required, on a city-wide basis if officials to be voted on by the entire city electorate are involved, otherwise only such District Councillor districts as may be involved.
(Amended at a Special Municipal Election, March 11, 2013.)
(Article II amended at Regular Municipal Election, October 3, 1989, as part of Proposition #1.) (The State Constitution was amended to allow the runoff procedure and the 40% minimum vote requirement.)