No person shall be eligible to be a member of Council unless he/she shall have been a qualified elector at the time of filing his/her nominating petition with the Board of Elections and continuously a resident of the Municipality for two (2) years immediately prior to his/her election or appointment or who has been continuously a resident of territory which, at the time of the election or appointment to Council, has been annexed to the Municipality.
No member of Council shall hold any other employment with the City, or hold any other public office except that of Notary Public, member or office of the State Militia or of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States.
No member of Council shall be interested in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work, or service for which moneys of the Municipality are expended.
Members of Council shall continue to be residents and qualified electors of the municipality throughout their term of office, failing which Council shall remove them from office. Council shall be the sole and final judge of the election and qualification of its members. Any member of Council who shall cease to possess or who violates any of the qualifications herein enumerated shall forfeit his/her office subject to a majority vote by the Council. Failure of any member of Council to maintain said qualifications shall not render void or ineffective any action of Council in which such member has articipated.
(Amended 11-5-02)
(Amended 11-5-02)