18. Section 5. Any person desiring to become a candidate for any elective city office shall file with the city clerk, with his declaration of candidacy, either a candidate fee of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars or a petition containing the signatures of duly qualified electors equal in number to not less than one (1) per cent or more than two (2) per cent of the total number of registered voters within the city at the date of the last general city election. Such nominating petition shall request that the name of such person be placed on the primary ballot as a candidate for the office named therein. Such petition shall be in substantially the following form:
NOMINATING PETITION The undersigned, duly qualified electors of the City of Wyandotte, and residing at the places set opposite our respective names hereto, do hereby request that the name of be placed on the ballot as a candidate for nomination for at the primary election to be held in such city on the fourth Tuesday of February, 20 . We further state that we know him or her to be a qualified elector of said city and a person of good moral character and qualified in our judgment for the duties of such office. Names of qualified electors Street |
It shall be unlawful for any person to sign more than one (1) such nominating petition for the same office unless there are two (2) or more candidates to be elected to fill said office, in which case he may sign as many petitions as there are candidates to be elected to fill said office. The signatures on all nominating petitions, of any person violating the provisions of this section shall be void.
(Res. passed 11-5-1996; Res. passed 9-22-2008, § 1)
Editor’s note:
Per M.C.L.A. § 168.322, the candidate filing deadline or certification deadline is 4:00 p.m. on the fifteenth Tuesday before the May election.
Res. 2016-243, based on M.C.L.A. § 168.642, eliminated the February primary.
Statutory reference:
Nominating petitions generally, see M.C.L.A. § 168.644f
Non-partisan nominating petitions, see M.C.L.A. § 168.544a