A CHARTER ORDINANCE RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FOR OBERLIN, KANSAS, AND AMENDING SECTION 2 OF CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 3.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF OBERLIN IN DECATUR COUNTY, KANSAS:
SECTION 2. A regular
city election shall be held on the first Tuesday in April of each succeeding
odd-numbered year. On the first Tuesday in April, 1969, there shall be elected
three councilmen to succeed the three councilmen who received the least amount
of votes at the regular city election in 1967, and said councilmen shall be
declared elected for a term of four years. The mayor and the two councilmen who
received the highest number of votes at the regular city election in 1967 and
who were declared elected for a term of four years have their terms by this
ordinance hereby ratified as said terms were determined by the regular city
election of 1967. Succeeding elections for all such offices shall be for four
year terms, or until the successors to such offices are qualified. Whenever
there is a tie vote for two or more candidates and it is necessary to determine
which candidate receives the office, the winner shall be determined by lot of
the board of canvassers. The city clerk shall, within three days after the
canvass of the returns and determination by the board of canvassers of the
persons elected, deliver to each such person a certificate of election, signed
by him and sealed with the seal of the city, and such certificate shall
constitute notice of election. The terms of the officers shall begin at the
first regular meeting of the council in May following their election in April
and they shall qualify by taking the oath of office and otherwise, if there be
other qualifications prescribed, at any time after receiving notice of election
and before or at the beginning of said meeting. If any person elected to the
office of councilman does not qualify within the required time, he shall be
deemed to have refused to accept the office and a vacancy shall exist and the
mayor shall appoint, with the consent of the remaining councilmen, in case of a
councilman, a suitable elector of the city to fill the vacancy for the term to
which the refusing person was elected. In case of a vacancy in the office of
councilman occurring by reason of resignation, death, removal from the city,
removal from office, or becoming mayor by reason of being president of the
council when a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor, the mayor shall appoint,
with the consent of a majority of the remaining councilmen, some suitable
elector of the city to fill the vacancy until the expiration of the term of
such office. In case of a vacancy in the office of mayor occurring by reason of
resignation, death, removal from office, removal from the city, or refusal or
failure to qualify, the president of the council, or in the case of the
mayor-elects refusal or failure to qualify, the new president of the council,
shall become mayor until the expiration of the term, and a vacancy shall occur
in the office of the councilman becoming mayor.
(12-01-1969; Repealed by C.O. No. 5)