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There shall be no primary election. The recall election shall be an election to fill the office or offices held by the incumbent or incumbents sought to be recalled. Any qualified person, including the incumbent or incumbents, may file as a candidate for the office or offices. The candidate or candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for the office or offices in the recall election shall be elected. If at such election, some person or persons other than the incumbent or incumbents receives the highest number of votes, the said incumbent or incumbents shall be deemed to have been removed, and shall vacate the office after qualification of his successor, which shall be within ten (10) days from declaration of the result, otherwise the incumbent shall remain in office.
No person who has been recalled from an office or has resigned from such office, while recall proceedings are pending against him may hold any office or position of employment in City government of the City of Guthrie within four (4) years after his recall or resignation.
The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be, “BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GUTHRIE,” but such enacting clause may be omitted when said ordinances are revised and complied under the order of the Council, or when they are published in book form.
No ordinance shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. An ordinance may be amended in whole or a section or sections thereof amended, but so much thereof as is amended shall be re-enacted and published at length or summarized by gist.
Within ten (10) days after its passage, every ordinance shall be published at least once in full, or summarized by gist, except as provided in Section 7 of this Article, in a newspaper meeting the requirements of the Statutes of the State of Oklahoma in respect to legal publications and of general circulation in the City of Guthrie. If there be no such legal newspaper, then publication of the ordinance shall be by posting a copy of the ordinance in ten (10) of the most public places in the City of Guthrie.
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