A special City election of the Mayor, Recorder and members of Council shall be held on June 8, 1993. Regular City elections shall be held on the second Tuesday of June, 1995, and the second Tuesday of June of each odd year thereafter.
The conduct of all municipal elections shall be integrated with the system of “permanent registration of voters,” and those provisions of Chapter Three of the West Virginia Code that integrate county-state elections with the “permanent registration system” are hereby incorporated by reference, to the extent reasonably applicable.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of general law with respect to the method and time for the filing of certificates of candidacy, conducting elections, and determining and certifying the results of such elections, shall apply to City elections.
All City elections shall be nonpartisan. Any person who is eligible to hold and seeks to hold the office of Mayor, Recorder, or member of Council shall file with the City Recorder at least sixty (60) days before the election, a certificate declaring candidacy for such office, accompanied by the $25.00 filing fee, which certificate shall be in form and effect as follows:
I, , hereby certify that I am a candidate for the office of [Mayor, Recorder, or member of Council] of the City of Bridgeport, and desire my name to be printed on the official ballot of the City of Bridgeport to be voted at the election to be held on the day of , 19 ; that I am a legally qualified voter of the City of Bridgeport; that my residence is , in the City of Bridgeport; that I am eligible to hold that office; and that I am a candidate for that office in good faith. .
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