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<br /> Section 3. <br />Sections 2.964 and 2.965 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended to <br />provide: <br />2.964 Elections - Nomination. <br />(1) <br />A candidate for a city council office representing a particular ward shall <br />be nominated by the [individual] electors [from] residing in that ward. <br />(2) <br /> A candidate for a Eugene Water & Electric Board office representing a <br />pair of wards shall be nominated by [individual] the electors [from] <br />residing in those wards. <br />(3) <br /> A candidate for the office of mayor or an office on the Eugene Water & <br />Electric Board representing the city at large shall be nominated by <br />[individual] electors [from the entire] who reside in the city. <br />(4) <br /> In a year for filling an office referred to in subsection (1), (2), or (3) of <br />this section, a nomination of a candidate for the office shall be <br />conducted in accordance with the state law governing popular elections, <br />except that the nominating petition shall be [filed with] submitted to the <br />city recorder at least [75] 76 days before the first election for filling the <br />office and it shall be signed by 25 [legally qualified] electors who reside <br />in the area to be represented by the office. [For purposes of calculating <br />the filing deadline, the date of the election shall be included in the <br />computation of time.] <br />(5) The city recorder or designee shall verify the signatures on a <br />nominating petition as provided in section 2.979(1) of this code. <br />Any signature which is not the signature of an elector who resides <br />in the area to be represented by the office for which the <br />nominating petition was circulated shall not be counted toward the <br />number of signatures required by subsection (4) of this section. <br /> <br />2.965 Elections - Residency <br />. A candidate for a city office must be an [legal] <br />elector [under the laws and constitution of the state] and must have been a <br />resident of the city for at least one year immediately preceding the election <br />that results in election to the office[, and]. A candidate for city office shall <br />maintain his or her residence within the city and the area he or she seeks to <br />represent at the time of nomination and throughout his or her term of office if <br />elected. [Removal of an officer's residence from the city or from the area he <br />or she represents shall create a vacancy in the office for which elected, to] If <br />a city official or candidate for city office fails to maintain his or her <br />residence within the city and the area he or she represents or seeks to <br />represent, he or she shall be removed from office or be ineligible to <br />serve as a city official. The vacancy thus created shall be filled in the <br />manner other vacancies in that office are filled. If a [councilor] city official or <br />candidate for city office has more than one residence, [then] the <br />requirements of this section apply to the principal place of residency, which <br />is the residence where the [person] city official or candidate for city office <br />spends more than 50% of [the] his or her time. <br /> <br />Ordinance – Page Page 4 of 24 <br />S0803106-attA.DOC 3/7/2008 <br /> <br />