A regular non-partisan city primary election shall be held on the third Monday in February of each year in which a regular city election is to be held, but if some other date in the months of February, March or April is fixed by law for the holding of the primary for the state biennial spring election, then the city primary election shall be held on the date so fixed.
If, upon the expiration of the time for filing nomination petitions for any elective city office, valid and sufficient petitions have been filed for no more than twice the number of candidates for such office to be elected at the following regular city election, then no primary election shall be held in respect to such office, and the Clerk shall publish notice of this fact as part of, or at the time provided for, the publication of notices for such primary election. Candidates equal in number to twice the number of persons to be elected to each city office at the following regular city election who receive the highest number of votes at any such primary election shall be declared the nominees for election to the respective offices. The names of such nominees, together with the names of persons for whom valid and sufficient petitions have been filed for offices with respect to which no primary election was held, shall be certified by the Clerk to the Election Commission to be placed upon the ballot for the next subsequent regular city election.
Editor’s note:
The city now holds an odd-year primary election under the provisions of Code of Ordinances, which was adopted pursuant to the odd-year general election provisions of M.C.L.A. §§ 168.644a. et seq.