A. The municipal employee relations officer shall:
1. Determine the majority representative of the city employees in an appropriate unit by arranging for a secret ballot election or by an other reasonable method which is based upon written proof, and is designed to ascertain the free choice of a majority of such employees. The employee organization found to represent a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit shall be granted formal recognition and is the only employee organization entitled to meet and confer in good faith on matters within the scope of representation for employees in such unit. This shall not preclude other recognized employee organizations, or individual employees, from consulting with management representatives on employer-employee relations matters of concern to them;
2. Revoke the recognition rights of a majority representative, which has been found by secret ballot election no longer to be the majority representative.
B. The recognition rights of the majority representative designated in accordance with this section shall not be subject to challenge for a period of not less than twelve (12) months following the date of such recognition. (Prior code § 1311)