Any person desiring to become an independent candidate for election to any office to be voted for at the next succeeding regular municipal election shall, not later than 4:00 P.M. of the ninetieth (90th) day before primary election day, file a nominating petition. Such petition shall require signatures of registered electors and shall be accompanied by the written acceptance of the nominees. The petition for offices of councilmen-at-large and all other City offices at-large shall require signatures of not less than two hundred (200) electors. The petition for office of ward councilman shall require signatures of not less than fifty (50) electors. Names of independent candidates will not appear on the primary ballot but will appear on the ballot of the next regular municipal election.
(Amended 11-6-12.)
(Amended 11-6-12.)