(A) 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. Nomination shall be by petition specifying the position sought, in a form prescribed by the Council. Such petition shall be signed by not fewer than five electors residing within the city. No elector shall sign more than one petition for each vacant position. If an elector does so, the elector’s signature shall be valid only on the first sufficient petition filed for the position.
(B) 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 the elector’s presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. With each signature shall be stated the signer’s place of residence, identified by its street and number or other sufficient description. All nomination papers, including verification by the County Clerk of petition signatures, comprising a petition shall be assembled and filed with the City Recorder as one instrument within the dates prescribed.
(C) The Recorder shall make a record of the exact time at which each petition is filed and shall take and preserve the name and address of the person by whom it is filed. If the petition is insufficient in any particular, the Recorder shall return it immediately to the person who filed it, certifying in writing wherein the petition is insufficient. Such deficient petition may be amended and filed again as a new petition, or a substitute petition for the same candidate may be filed, within the regular time for filing nomination petitions.
(D) The Recorder shall notify an eligible person of that persons’ nomination, and such person shall file with the Recorder written acceptance of that person’s nomination, in such form as the Council may require, within five days of notification of nomination. Upon receipt of such acceptance of nomination, the Recorder shall cause the nominee’s name to be printed on the ballots. The petition of nomination for a successful candidate at an election shall be preserved in the office of the Recorder until the term of office for which the candidate is elected expires.
(Ord. 328, passed 9-10-1990)