The Council shall consist of five (5) members, elected at large by the qualified voters of the City. They shall be qualified electors, citizens of the United States and shall have resided within the corporate limits of the City at least one (1) year prior to the date of their qualifying for office.
(A) Qualifying for Council Seat. Any qualified elector of the city who meets the foregoing qualifications may qualify for election to a Council seat by designating the group number for which he desires to run and by paying such filing fee as the City Council may prescribe to the City Clerk not less than thirty (30) days nor more than forty-five (45) days prior to the date of such election. Any such qualified elector who files a sworn statement with the City Clerk of inability to pay said filing fee and providing to the City Clerk a petition signed by fifty (50) qualified City electors within the above prescribed period may qualify for election to a Council seat without payment of said filing fee.
(B) Judge of Qualifications. The City Council shall have sole discretion in determining whether or not candidates have met the qualifications for election to the Council.
(C) Terms of Office. The terms of Council members shall be for two (2) years, which term of office shall begin on the first Monday in December following their election and until their successors are fully elected and qualified. The offices of the members of the City Council, including Mayor-Councilman, are hereby designated as groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, all of said groups to be filled by candidates running-at-large. The mayor-councilman is designated as Group 1. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast in the respective group shall be declared elected.
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