[R.O. 2011 §2.06.010; Code 1950 §501.1; Prior Code
§11-1; Ord. No. 6192, 1999]
The general municipal election day for the election of a Mayor
and any other elective officers that may now or hereafter be elected
by the City at large, and one (1) Councilmember for each ward, shall
be the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April,
1998, and the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in
April every four (4) years thereafter. The general municipal election
day for a Councilmember from each ward shall be the first (1st) Tuesday
after the first (1st) Monday in April, 2000, and the first (1st) Tuesday
after the first (1st) Monday in April every four (4) years thereafter.
[R.O. 2011 §2.06.020; Code 1950 §501.2; Prior Code
§11-2]
Special elections for any lawful purpose may be called by ordinance
at a time to be fixed by the Council.
[R.O. 2011 §2.06.030; Code 1950 §502.11; Prior
Code §11-13]
No person holding an appointive position as an officer or employee
of the City, or as a member, officer or employee of any appointive
board or bureau of the City, shall use his/her official authority
or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body,
or to interfere with any election, or shall take an active part in
a political campaign, or shall seek or accept nomination, election
or appointment as an officer of a political club or organization,
or circulate or seek signatures to any petition provided for by any
primary or election law, or act as a worker at the polls, or display
badges, signs or cards favoring or opposing a candidate for election
or nomination to a public office in the City; but nothing in this
Section shall be construed to prohibit or prevent any such person
from becoming or continuing to be a member of a political club or
organization or from attendance upon political meetings, from enjoying
entire freedom from all interference in casting his/her vote, from
expressing privately his/her opinions on all political questions,
or from seeking or accepting election or appointment to public office;
provided however, that no active campaign for election shall be conducted
by any such officer or employee unless he/she shall first resign his/her
position. Every officer or employee holding an appointive office or
position in the City, or who may hereafter be appointed to such office
or position, shall have an indefinite tenure of office during good
behavior, except where a definite term is prescribed by law. Every
person charged with a violation of this Section shall be given a hearing
as prescribed by this Code or by ordinance, and, if found guilty of
such violation, shall be dismissed from the service of the City.
