Council members shall be elected from the municipality at large unless the residents of the municipality have voted to elect its Council members by wards. Council members shall serve for a term of four years and shall be a resident and qualified elector. If the election of Council members takes place by wards, each nominee for Council member shall be a resident and qualified elector of the ward for which he or she is a candidate, and only residents of that ward may sign the candidate’s nomination petitions.
(Prior Code, § 1-802)