No sooner than the first day of January of any year in which a municipal election shall be held as hereinbefore provided, nor later than the fifteenth day of February in any such year, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the recorder to prepare and cause to be published as a class 1 legal advertisement a notice of election in which notice the date of the municipal election and the offices to be filled at such election shall be specified.
On the first regular meeting of the common council next succeeding the publication of notice of election the recorder shall certify to the governing body that the publication requirement was observed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(3-10-83.)