§ 3 Elections
§ 4 Nominations
§ 5 Nominating Petitions
§ 6 Petition Form
§ 7 Candidacy and Nominating Petition Papers
§ 8 Filing and Verification of Petitions
§ 9 Acceptance of Nomination – Repealed
§ 10 Selection of Candidates
§ 11 Ballots
§ 12 Rotation of Names
§ 13 Write-in Spaces on Ballots
§ 14 Rules for Counting Ballots
§ 15 General Laws to Apply
§ 16 Removal Procedure of Mayor or Member of Council
§ 17 Filing Recall Petition
§ 18 Recall Election Ordered
§ 19 Separate Recall Petitions Required
§ 20 Ballots in Recall Elections
§ 21 Result of Recall Election
§ 22 Election When Member Resigns
§ 23 Limitations on Recall Petitions
§ 23-1 Campaign Financing Laws
§ 23-2 Comprehensive Disclosure Rules – Repealed
§ 23-3 Fair Campaign Finance Commission – Repealed
§ 23-4 Penalties – Repealed
§ 23-5 Appeals Process – Repealed
§ 23-6 Review of Campaign Financing Laws – Repealed
§ 23-7 Passage of Legislation – Repealed
A general election for the choice of elective officers provided for in this Charter shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November every four years commencing November 1981. Elections so held shall be known as regular Municipal elections. The other elections shall be held as may be required by law, or provided for in this Charter.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any regular Municipal election under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held on the second Tuesday in September prior to the regular Municipal election. Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any other Municipal election under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held on the eighth Tuesday prior to the other Municipal elections.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
The name of any elector of the City shall be printed upon the ballot, when a petition in the form prescribed in this Charter is filed in the elector's behalf with the election authorities, and the elector has been an elector of the City for at least twelve (12) consecutive months immediately prior to the next regular Municipal election or the next election, as required by law or Charter, whichever occurs first. Such petition shall be signed by at least three thousand (3,000) electors of the City, for the nomination of a candidate for an office filled by election from the City at large, and by at least two hundred (200) electors of the ward if for the nomination for an office to be filled by election from a ward.
(Effective November 5, 2019)
The signatures to a nominating petition need not all be appended to one paper, but on each separate paper the circulator shall indicate the number of signatures contained on the petition, and shall sign a statement made under penalty of election falsification that the circulator witnesses the affixing of every signature, that all signers were to the best of the circulator’s knowledge and belief qualified to sign, and that every signature is to the best of the circulator’s knowledge and belief the signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Each signer of a petition shall sign his or her name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall place on the petition after his or her name the signer’s place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place, and give the date when the signer’s signature was made.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
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