(A) (1) To obtain the benefits derived by the Police Pension and Retirement System of the city, the officers or members of the Police Department, active and retired, shall, within 30 days from the date of the passage of this article, elect by ballot three members of the Police Department to the Board of Trustees hereinbefore designated.
(2) Until changed by law, the election of members of the Board of Trustees by the Police Department shall continue to be done and had by a call of the election by the Mayor, which shall be done by the City Clerk, mailing to each and every member of the Police Department a noticed that an election shall be held for the purpose of electing three of their number as members of the Board of Trustees.
(B) (1) The notice shall be properly addressed to each and every member of the Police Department and deposited in the United States mail at the city and the election shall be held five days subsequent to the giving of the notice. The notice shall also state where the election shall be held and the day and hour or hours when same shall be held. The voting for the Trustees shall be done by ballot, and shall be done by placing the ballots in a ballot box to be provided by the city, and so conducted that each elector's ballot shall be secret as in the election for city and county offices.
(2) The City Clerk shall conduct the election by seeing that each and every person so voting is a member of the Police Department of this city as defined by this article, active or retired, and shall canvass all ballots so voted and shall certify the results thereof to the City Council, who shall by proper resolution declare the election of the three persons receiving the highest number of votes to be elected.
(C) At the first election, one member shall be elected to serve one year, one to serve two years and one to serve three years. At the end of the first year, after the election and upon the same date of the succeeding year, a like election shall be held, at which time a member of the Board of Trustees shall be elected and shall hold his or her office for a period of three years, and like elections shall be held each succeeding year on the date corresponding with the date of the first election and the members so elected shall hold the Office of Trustee of the Board for a period of three years.
(D) If a vacancy or vacancies should occur in the Office of Trustee or Trustees of the Board so elected, the vacancies shall be filled by election of a member or members, in the same manner so above provided. A vacancy shall occur when a Trustee’s employment with the city is terminated.
(E) Each officer or member of the Board of Trustees so elected shall, before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her office, take and subscribe an oath of office to faithfully perform the duties of his or her office and to account for all monies and property in his or her hands, and shall execute a bond to the city in the sum of $2,500 on condition that he or she will faithfully perform the duties of his or her office and faithfully account and deliver to his or her successor all funds, money, bonds or other property in his or her hands belong to the Police Pension and Retirement System of the city.
(`90 Code, § 1-35)