131-02 Non-partisan Elections - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

.7' Section 2. That new Sections I through 8 of Article XD( of the Charter of the City of Lakewood be adopted as follows: ARTIClE X~ ELECTZONS SECT[ON :1.. REGULAR AND SPEC[AL MUNICIPAL ELECI'[ONS. General munidpal elections for the purpose of the election of officers provided for in this Charter shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year and shall be known as regular munidpal elections. All other elections held under the provisions of this Charter or as may be required by law shall be known as spedal munidpal elections. SECT[ON 2. PRZMAEY BEC'DONS. On the fifth TuesdaY prior to each general municipal election, primary elections shall be held for the purpose of nominating persons withoUt regard to political parties, for election to offices provided for by this Charter to be voted for at the next succeeding regular municipal election. The number of candldates for the office of Mayor and the four Ward Coundlmen at any regular election in the City shall be the two (2) persons on the pdmary election ballot receiving the highest number of votes at the pdmary election. The number of candidates for the office of Coundl-at-Large at any regular munidpal election in the City shall be the six (6) candidates on the pdmary ballot receiving the hlghest number of votes at the primary election. In case there shall not be more than two person who shall have filed petitions for the office of Nayor or the four Ward Coundlmen as provided for in this Charter, then said persons shall be the candidates at the regular municipal election and the primary for the particular office shall not be held. [n case there shall not be more than slx (6) persons who shall have filed petitions for the office of Coundl-at-large as provided for in this Charter, then said persons shall be the candidates at the regular Munidpal election and the pdmary for the particular office shall not be held. SECT[ON 3. ELECTZON PROCEEDURES. Write-In votes for munidpal candidates in general elections shall be permitted only if a duly nominated candidate cannot partidpate due to death or other disqualifications, or if each candidate does not have an opponent. The ballots used in the primary and general munidpal elections shall be without party mark or designation. The names of all candidates shall be placed upon the same ballot and shall be rotated in the manner provided by the general laws of Ohio. Any person may vote in any munidpal election if such person is registered as a voter with the election authorities as prescribed by the laws of the State of Ohio. SECTZON 4. CERT[FZCATE OF NOMZNA'I'[ON WHEN NO PRZNARY [S HELD. Zn the event a primary election is not held, the election officials whose duty it would have been to provide for and conduct such primary election shall declare each candidate to be nominated, Issue appropriate certificates of nomination to each of them, and certify each of their names to the proper election officials in order that their names may be pdnted on the offidal ballots provided for use in the next succeeding regular munidpal election, in the same manner as if such pdmary election has bean held and each such person had been nominated at such election. SECT[ON 5. DES[GNA'DON OF CANDE)ATES. Candidates for nominations to elective offices provided for in this Charter shall have their names pdnted on the offidai pdmary ballot by filing a declaration of candidacy and paying the required filing fee.