A non-partisan village primary election shall be held on the third Monday of February of each year. If, upon the expiration of the time for filing nomination petitions for the officers of the village with respect to which elections are to be held at the next regular village election, it appears that petitions have been filed for no more than twice the number of candidates for each such office, then no primary election shall be held and the Clerk shall publish notice of such fact. It is the intent of this section that if a primary is required for any office, it shall be held for all offices which are to be filled at the next regular village election. The candidates for nomination for each village office to be filled at the next village election, in number equal to twice the number of persons to be elected to such village office, receiving the highest number of votes at any such village primary election shall be declared the nominees for election to the respective offices for which they are candidates for election and their names, and the names of persons filing petitions, or in whose behalf petitions have been filed in cases where no primary election was held, shall be certified to the election commission to be placed upon the ballot for the next subsequent regular village election. No person whose name is not printed on the primary election ballot, but whose name is written on or appears on the ballot on a sticker pasted thereon at such election, except such stickers as have been placed thereon by the election commission as provided by law, shall be nominated for election to any office, unless he receives at least twenty-five (25) votes nominating him for such office.
(Adopted 3-13-67)
Editor’s Note:
The 2004 amendments to Michigan Election Law take precedence over Section 5.3 of the Village Charter and abolished the Village primary election as confirmed in a Village Council Resolution adopted on November 8, 2004.