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Ordinance No. 2001-74 Page 2 SEC. 3. PRIMARY ELECTIONS. Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any municipal elections under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held in odd numbered years on a date and at a time provided for by the general laws of the State of Ohio governing municipalities. SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF CANDIDATES. The number of candidates for the office of Mayor, President of Council, Director of Finance, Director of Law, and Council-by-Ward at any regular municipal election in the City shall be the two (Z) candidates on the primary election ballot receiving the highest number of votes at the primary election. The number of candidates for the office of Council-at-Large at any regular municipal election in the City shall be the six (6) candidates on the primary election ballot receiving the highest number ofvotes at the primary election. In case there shall not be more than two (2) persons who shall have filed petitions for the office of Mayor, President of Council, Director of Finance, Director of Law, and Council-by-Ward, as provided for in this Charter, then said persons shall be the candidates at the regular municipal election and the primary election for the office not exceeding two (2) persons shall not be held. In the case there shall not be more than six (6) persons who shall have filed petitions for the office of Council-at-Large as provided for in the Charter, said persons shall be the candidates at the regular municipal election and the primary election for Cou.ncil-at-Large shall not be held. Anyone who has not properly filed a petition for the appropriate primary election as provided for in this Charter, shall be ineligible as a designated candidate in the regular municipal election. SEC. 5. GENERAL PROVISIONS. After each recurring Federal Census and within three months after the issuance of the proclamation by the Secretary of State, certifying the population of the City, or when there is annexed thereto, any territory, the Council shall redistrict the City into four (4) wards, if necessary, so as to have each ward as nearly equal in population as practicable and which shall be bounded by county lines, streets, alleys, avenues, public grou.nds, ca.nals, water courses, municipal corporate lines, or center lines of platted streets in said ward. If the Council fails to make such subdivisions within the time required, it shall then be made by the Director of Public Service. Where no special provision is made in this Charter governing general, primary, or special election, registration and the conduct of such elections, the provisions of the generallaw of the State of Ohio shall control. SECTION 2. If the foregoing proposal receives the affinnative vote of a majority of the electors voting thereon, then the amended Article IX shall be effective as of the earliest date provided by law. SECTION 3. It is the desire of the Council that the ballot far said question shall be in substantially the following form: