Item 2: Ordinance Revising Elections Code

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nominating petition as provided in section 2.979(1) of this code. Any signature which is not the signature of an elector who resides in the area to be represented by the office for which the nominating petition was circulated shall not be counted toward the number of signatures required by subsection (4) of this section. 2.965 Elections - Residency . A candidate for a city office must be an [legal] elector [under the laws and constitution of the state] and must have been a resident of the city for at least one year immediately preceding the election that results in election to the office[, and]. A candidate for city office shall maintain his or her residence within the city and the area he or she seeks to represent at the time of nomination and throughout his or her term of office if elected. [Removal of an officer's residence from the city or from the area he or she represents shall create a vacancy in the office for which elected, to] If a city official or candidate for city office fails to maintain his or her residence within the city and the area he or she represents or seeks to represent, he or she shall be removed from office or be ineligible to serve as a city official. The vacancy thus created shall be filled in the manner other vacancies in that office are filled. If a [councilor] city official or candidate for city office has more than one residence, [then] the requirements of this section apply to the principal place of residency, which is the residence where the [person] city official or candidate for city office spends more than 50% of [the] his or her time. Section 4. Subsections (4), (5), (6) and (7) of Section 2.966 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended to provide: 2.966 Elections - Officers. (4) Except as provided in section 24 of the Eugene Charter, [T]the first voting for mayor, councilor, or [EWEB] Eugene Water & Electric Board member during a year shall take place at an election held at the same time [and places in the city] as the statewide primary election that year. (5) If at the primary election one candidate for a city office receives a majority of the votes cast for [all candidates for] that office, that candidate shall be the only one whose name appears on the ballot [for] at the [November] general election that year as a candidate for that particular office. (6) If at the primary election no [such] candidate receives [such] a majority of votes cast for the office, the two candidates receiving the two highest numbers of votes cast for the office shall be the only [ones] candidates whose names appear on the ballot [for] at the [November] general election that year as candidates for that particular office. (7) The candidate who receives a majority of the votes cast [at the November election] for the office at the general election is elected to Ordinance – Page Page 4 of 23 07 Election Code Amendments (00186837-10) 2/4/2008