(A) Qualification. A qualified elector who shall have resided in the city during the 12 months immediately preceding the election may be nominated for an elective city position.
(B) Petition. Nomination shall be by petition, specifying the position sought, in a form prescribed by the Recorder. The petition shall be signed by not fewer than 20 electors. The signatures to a nomination petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate paper of the petition shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof, indicating the number of signers of the paper and stating that each signature appended thereto was made in his or her presence. With each signature shall be stated the signer’s place of residence, identified by its street and number or other sufficient description.
(C) Filing of petition: discrepancy.
(1) The Recorder shall make a record of the exact time at which each petition is filed and shall take the name and address of the person filing it. If the petition is not signed by the required number of qualified electors, the Recorder shall notify the candidate and the person who filed the petition within five days of the filing.
(2) If the petition is insufficient in any other particular, the Recorder shall return it immediately to the person who filed it, certifying in writing wherein the petition is insufficient. An insufficient petition may be amended and filed again as a new petition, or a different petition for the same candidate may be filed, within the time for filing nomination petitions.
(D) Acceptance of nomination. The Recorder shall notify an eligible person of his or her nomination, and such person shall file with the Recorder his or her written acceptance of nomination, in a form provided by the Recorder, within five days of notification of nomination. Upon receipt of acceptance of nomination, the Recorder shall cause the nominee’s name to be printed on the ballots.
(Ord. 1113, passed 8-15-1988)