(a) The city clerk shall mail the early ballot and the envelope for its return postage prepaid to the address provided by the requesting elector within five (5) days after receipt of the printed ballots, except that early ballot mailings shall not begin more than twenty-seven (27) days before the election. If an early ballot request is received on or before the thirty-first (31st) day before the election, the early ballot shall be distributed not earlier than the twenty-seventh (27th) day before the election and not later than the twenty-fourth (24th) day before the election.
(b) If a request is made by the elector within twenty-seven (27) days before the election, the mailing of the early ballot must be made within forty-eight (48) hours after receipt of the request. Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays are excluded from the computation of the forty-eight (48) hour period prescribed by this subsection.
(Ord. No. 11525, § 2, 2-21-18)