Persons desiring to qualify as candidates for any elective office under this Charter shall file with the City Clerk nomination petitions signed by not less than fifteen (15) nor more than one hundred twenty (120) registered and qualified voters of the City of Negaunee. The City Clerk shall prepare and make available in his or her office official blank petitions in substantially the same form as that required by State law for State and County officers, except that references to political parties shall be omitted. To each petition there shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator thereof stating that each signature thereon is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be and that it was made in the presence of the affiant. No elector shall sign more petitions than there are offices to be filled, and should an elector do so, his or her signature shall be void except as to the petitions first filed for that office. Whenever it shall be necessary at any City election to elect an officer to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term such fact shall be stated in the petitions filed for the purpose of nominating candidates to fill each vacancy.
(Amended Nov. 6, 2001)