(A) When an election is held in said town for the offices of Mayor, Recorder and Councilperson, the Town Council or a quorum thereof, under the regulations prescribed in § 30.34 of this chapter, shall carefully and impartially ascertain the result of said election and shall record the same in the minute book in the following form, or to the following effect.
The Town Council of the Town of Lost Creek, having carefully and impartially examined the returns laid before it of the election held in said town on the ____ day of ________, the members of said Council in attendance at this meeting do hereby certify that in said town for the office of Mayor, _____________ received _____ votes, etc.; for the office of Recorder, _____________ received _____ votes, etc.; and it appearing from said returns that _____________ received the highest number of votes cast for Mayor, that _____________ received the highest number of votes for Recorder, and that _____________, etc., received the highest number of votes cast for the five Councilpersons, the said _____________ is declared duly elected Mayor, the said _____________ is declared duly elected Recorder, and the said _____________ , etc., are declared duly elected Councilpersons of said town for the term of two years, beginning on the first day of July ______. |
(B) In said certificate shall be set forth, according to the truth, the full name of every person voted for and, in words at length and in figures, the number of votes he or she received for any office, and when the same is entered on record, the members of said Council shall affix their signatures thereto on said record. A copy of said certificate shall also be delivered by mail or by hand to each newly elected officer.
(Prior Code, § 1-825)