A person desiring to qualify as a candidate for any elective office under this Charter shall file with the Clerk an official nominating petition therefor. Official blank nominating petitions, in substantially the same form as required by law for nonpartisan nomination petitions, shall be prepared and furnished by the Clerk. Such petition shall be signed by not less than fifty nor more than one hundred of the registered electors of the city. Such petitions shall be filed with the Clerk not later than 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon on the Tuesday following the first Monday in August. Before the Clerk shall furnish a form of nominating petition to any person, he shall enter thereon with typewriter or in ink the name of the candidate and the name of the office for which he is to be a candidate. No petition which has been altered with respect to such entries shall be received by the Clerk for filing. Nominating petitions for the purpose of filling a vacancy shall so state in connection with the name of the office for which they are to be used. If any person signs his name to a greater number of petitions for any office than there will be persons elected to that office, his signature shall be disregarded on all petitions for that office.
Editor's note:
Odd-numbered year election law, M.C.L.A. § 168.644a, controls this topic
Statutory reference:
Mandatory that Charter provide for nomination of elective officers, see M.C.L.A. § 117.3(b);
Nonpartisan nominating petitions, see M.C.L.A. § 168.544a