(A) Candidates for the office of Mayor shall be nominated from the city-at-large by petition and elected by the qualified electors of the city. Candidates for the office of City Commissioner shall be nominated by petition and elected by the qualified electors of the ward in which they reside. Nominating petitions shall be on blanks furnished by the City Clerk. Each nominating petition shall comply with state law, be signed by not less than 25 qualified electors, and be filed with the Clerk by 4:00 p.m. of the fifteenth Tuesday preceding the primary election in each odd-numbered year.
(B) Each elector who signs a petition shall date his or her signature and include his or her residential street address on the petition. If an elector signs more petitions for candidates for any office than the number of positions to be filled, then the most recent signatures shall be invalid and if the most recent signatures all bear the same date, then all of those signatures shall be invalid. The circulator of a petition shall attach to each petition a certificate stating:
(1) The number of signatures on the petition;
(2) Each signature is that of the person whose name it purports to be; and
(3) Each signature was made in the presence of the circulator.
(Ord. effective 9-29-2017)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see M.C.L.A. §§ 168.542 et seq.