The City Council shall be made up of five Council members. Council members shall be elected from the city at large unless the City Council by ordinance provides for the election of all or some of its Council members by wards. Council members shall serve for a term of four years and until their successors are elected and have qualified, except that the first election under an ordinance changing the manner of election shall be for all Council members irrespective of their manner of election.
(Prior Code, § 1-806)