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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)
All separate papers comprising a statement of candidacy and nominating petition shall be assembled and filed with the election authorities as one instrument no later than four p.m. on the ninetieth (90th ) day prior to the day of the primary election. Within ten (10) days after the filing of a nominating petition the election authorities shall notify the person named in the petition as a candidate whether the petition is found to be signed by the required number of qualified electors. If insufficient, the person named in the petition as candidate may amend the petition by filing additional petition papers within five (5) days after notification of insufficiency by the election authorities. Within five (5) days after the filing of the additional petition papers, the election authorities shall notify the person named in the petition as candidate whether the amended petition is found to be signed by the required number of qualified electors.
(Effective November 5, 2019)
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