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NO. 73- l0 Introduced by: COUNCIL AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE SUBMISSION TO THE ELECTORS OF THE VILLAGE OF HAYFIELD, OHIO, OF THE QUESTION"SHALL A COMMISSION BE CHOSEN TO FRAME A CHARTER?" AND FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF HAYFIELD, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, STATE OF OHIO, ALL OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED THERETO CONCURRING. Sec. 1. That the question "Shall a Commission be chosen to frame a charter?" be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of the Village of Mayfield at the special municipal election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of May, 1973, at the regular place or places and hours of voting in said village as established by the Board of Elections of Cuyahoga County, Ohio; that said question, shall be submitted in the following form, to-wit: "Shall a Commission be chosen to frame a charter?" To the left of such wording shall spear, in boxes with appropriate places for marking, the words "Yes" and "No", and each voter shall indi- cate his vote by placing a cross mark in one of the places so provided. Sec. 2. That the ballot upon which the question provided for in section°.1 hereof shall be submitted shall bear no party designation; it shall have printed or written thereon the:~.name of all electors who shall have been nomintated as provided in section 3 hereof, and such directions as will aid the elector, as "Vote for not more than fifteen" and the like, and such certification of the election officers upon the back of the ballot as is prescribed by law. In case a majority of electors voting upon the question "Shall a Commission be chosen to frame a charter?" shall have voted in the affirmative, then and in that event, and not otherwise, the fifteen electors who shall have received the largest number of votes for members of such Commission shall be and constitute "A Commission to frame a charter". Sec. 3. All nominations for members of such Commission shall be made by nomination papers signed by not less than twenty-five persons who are eligible to vote at regular municipal elections, and such nomi- nation papers shall be filed with the Board of Elections at least forty days before said election. Sec. 4. The ballots shall be printed and prepared as follows: The whole number of ballots to be printed for the election of persons to act as members of such Charter Commission shall be divided by the number of candidates for said offices, and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of ballots in each series of ballots to be printed, as follows: The names of candidates shall be arranged in alphabetical order and the first series of ballots printed; then the first name shall be placed last and the next series printed, and so shall the process be repeated until each name shall have been first. These ballots shall then be