§ 3.06. Nomination petitions.

A person desiring to be nominated as a candidate for any elective City office shall file with the City Clerk a nominating petition, consisting of one or more official nominating petition forms. Each petition filed by or on behalf of a person seeking nomination to the office of Mayor shall be signed by not less than 125 nor more than 200 registered electors of the City. Each petition filed by or on behalf of a person seeking nomination to the office of Council Member shall be signed by not less than 25 nor more than 50 registered electors residing in the ward from which a person proposes to be elected Council Member.

Official nominating petition forms may be prepared and furnished by the City Clerk. The official forms shall contain the name of the candidate, the candidate's address, the political party for which the candidate proposes to be nominated as a candidate for elective office, and the elective office for which the petitions are to be signed, and shall otherwise be in substantially the same form as the State law requires of partisan nominating petitions for State and County elective offices.

Nominating petitions shall be filed with the City Clerk not later than 4:00 p.m., local time, on the fifteenth Tuesday preceding the regular City primary election, or as provided by state law. The City shall publish notice of the last day and time for filing nomination petitions at least one (1) week and not more than three (3) weeks before that date.

No person shall sign more than one petition for Mayor or more than one petition for Council Member for a four-year term. Whenever there is an election for Council Member for a two-year term, no person shall sign more than one petition for that office. When the signature of a registered elector appears on the petitions of competing candidates, the signatures on the petitions that have been filed first shall be counted and the signature or signatures on petitions filed subsequently shall not be counted.

(Res. No. 2014-191, 8-7-2014)