(a) Required; number of signatures; filing. Every candidate for elective town office, excepting a write-in candidate, shall file with the Town Clerk a petition signed by not less than 25 qualified electors of the town requesting the Town Commission to place the name of such candidate upon the official ballot. The petition shall be filed in the office of the Town Clerk as provided for in § 13-6.
(b) Form of petition. The petition of any person seeking to qualify as a candidate for office in the town shall be in the following form:
“We, the undersigned qualified electors of the Town of Melbourne Beach, Florida, hereby request that the name of be placed on the Official Ballot for the Office of .” (Said Ballot to be used in the Town Election to be held on the day of , 20 ) “We further certify that we have signed the Petition of no other Candidate for this particular Office in this Election.”
(c) Electors are not to sign more than one petition. It shall be unlawful for any person to sign the petition of more than one candidate for any one office in any one election. If an elector's signature appears on two or more petitions for any office submitted to the Town Clerk, the elector's signature shall be declared by the Town Clerk to be invalid on the petition(s) submitted later in time than the first petition submitted to the Town Clerk upon which said elector's name shall appear, the intent being that said elector's signature shall be valid on only one petition.
(d) Copies of petition to be made available to public. Copies of nominating petitions required by this chapter shall be kept on file in the office of the Town Clerk and made available without cost to any individual.
('75 Code, §§ 10-2 – 10-5)
(e) Time of collection of signature on nominating petition. Signatures on all nominating petitions shall not be collected prior to filing with the Town Clerk the Appointment of Campaign Treasurer/Designation of Campaign Depository form and the loyalty oath form referenced in §§ 13-1.1 and 13-6 of this code.
(Am. Ord. 91.04, passed 5-31-91; Am. Ord. 5-2005, adopted 11-2-05; Am. Ord. 2010-04, adopted 4-21-10; Am. Ord. 2014-03, adopted 4-16-14)