§ 2. ELECTION DATE; COUNCIL TERMS; ELECTION BY MAJORITY AND RUN-OFF ELECTIONS.
(A)
The city's general election shall be held on the November uniform election date authorized by state law in even-numbered years. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, the regular term of the mayor and council members is four years. Council terms shall be staggered so that a general election is held every two years, and half, or as near to half as is practical, of the council is elected at each election.
(B)
A council member shall hold office for a term specified by this Charter or until a successor has been elected and qualified. If elected to fill an unexpired term, a council member shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term or until a successor has been elected and qualified.
(C)
The regular term of a council member begins on the date set by ordinance. A council member may qualify for office on that date or as soon thereafter as practicable. In the case of a special election to fill an unexpired term, the person elected may qualify and assume office as soon as practicable after the canvass of the election.
(D)
At every regular election and at every special election called to fill one or more vacant places on the council, election to each place on the council shall be by a majority of all the votes cast for such place at such election. In every such election each qualified voter shall vote for not more than one candidate for each council place to be filled. Where in an election to a place on the council, no candidate receives a majority of all the votes cast for such place at such election, the council shall, immediately upon declaring the official results of the election, issue a call for a run-off election for every place to which no one was elected. Such run-off election shall be held in accordance with state law and the two (2) candidates who received in the preceding election the highest number of votes for each place to which no one was elected shall be voted on again, and the candidate who receives the majority of the votes cast for each such place in the run-off election shall be elected to such place.
Amendment note: Section 2 appears as amended at the election of November 6, 2012. The section had previously been amended at the elections of May 7, 1994, and April 1, 1967.
Source: Ord. No. 20180809-113 , Pt. 7, 8-20-18/election of 11-6-18.