Item 6: Ordinance Revising Elections Code

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city recorder at least [75] 76 days before the first election for filling the office and it shall be signed by 25 [legally qualified] electors who reside in the area to be represented by the office. [For purposes of calculating the filing deadline, the date of the election shall be included in the computation of time.] (5) The city recorder or designee shall verify the signatures on a 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 must be registered to vote as a resident of the city at the time his or her nominating petition is submitted to the city recorder. 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. 2.966 Elections - Officers. (1) In 2002 and every fourth year thereafter a councilor shall be elected from each of the following wards: (a) Ward 3. (b) Ward 4. (c) Ward 5. (d) Ward 6. (2) In 2004 and every fourth year thereafter a mayor shall be elected from the city at large and a councilor shall be elected from each of the following wards: (a) Ward 1. (b) Ward 2. (c) Ward 7. (d) Ward 8.