[Ord. #856, § 2700]
Except as otherwise provided by the Constitution of the State,
the City Charter, or by the provisions of this Chapter, all elections
shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code
of the State applicable to municipal elections.
[Ord. #856, § 2701; Ord. #923]
The Council shall by ordinance order the holding of all primary
nominating, general municipal, and special elections. Every such ordinance
shall specify the object and time of holding any such election and
shall establish the election precincts, designate the polling places
therefor, and name the officers of election for each precinct, who
shall be residents and qualified electors thereto, to conduct the
holding of and make returns of such elections; provided, however,
that when two or more municipal elections are consolidated by the
City Council it shall not be necessary to set forth the precinct,
polling places and officers of election in more than one of the ordinances
calling the election, and in case a municipal election is consolidated
with a State or County election it shall not be necessary to set forth
the precinct, polling places and officers of elections, but reference
may be made to the ordinance of the authority calling said election
and fixing precincts, polling places and officers of election and
unless otherwise designated in the ordinance adopted by the Council
calling an election, the voting precincts of such election shall be
the precincts provided by law for the holding of State and County
elections in said City.
[Ord. #856, § 2702]
The officers of election for each precinct shall consist of
at least one inspector, one judge and two clerks and the City Clerk
shall select and appoint such officers of election with the approval
of the City Council.
[Ord. #856, § 2703]
The Council shall canvass the returns at their next regular
or adjourned regular meeting after all returns have been received
or accounted for by the City Clerk or at any special meeting held
for that purpose.
[Ord. #856, § 2704]
The City Clerk shall employ such persons in addition to the
persons regularly employed in his office as may be necessary to assist
him in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by the Charter
of the City, this Chapter or the Council in connection with the conduct
of any election.
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Editor's Note: Former Sections 6-6 and 6-7 pertaining to municipal
judges, previously codified herein and containing portions of Ordinance
No. 856, were repealed in their entirety by Ordinance No. 1864.
[Ord. #856, § 2707; Ord. #1573; Ord. #1864, § 2;
Ord. #1925, § 1; Ord. #1927, § 1]
Not earlier than the 113th day nor later than the 86th day before
the primary nominating election to be held on the third Tuesday in
April, and not earlier than the 10th day before any general municipal
election, the City Clerk shall cause a notice of the same to be published
at least once in an official newspaper in the City; provided, however,
that where a special municipal election is consolidated with a primary
nominating election or a general municipal election, notice thereof
may be consolidated with the notice of such primary nominating election
or general municipal election, otherwise such notice shall be published
not earlier than the 60th nor later than the 12th day prior to the
holding of such special municipal election. An ordinance calling an
election shall be published at least once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.
[Ord. #856, § 2708]
The name of no candidate for nomination shall be printed upon
the primary nominating election ballot unless a petition for nomination
substantially in the form provided in the Election Code for the nomination
of candidates for municipal offices shall have been filed with the
City Clerk. Provided, however, that the Affidavit of Nominee shall
be substantially in the following form:
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AFFIDAVIT OF NOMINEE
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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as.
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COUNTY OF
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______________________ being duly sworn, says;
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That he is the above-named nominee for the office of __________________________,
that he will accept the office in the event of his election, and that
he desires his name to appear on the ballot as follows:
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(Print name above)
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Signature
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____________ day of ____________,
20_______
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Notary Public in and for said County and State.
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A candidate who is running for the same elective office as he
then holds may at the time of the taking out of his nominating petition,
file a written request that immediately underneath his name and not
separated therefrom by any line be printed, the word "Incumbent" or
the words designating such elective office; and no candidate excepting
an incumbent shall have any designation other than his name.
The name of the incumbent shall appear first upon a list of
all candidates for any office, and all other candidates for such office
shall appear in alphabetical order.
[Ord. #856, § 2709; Ord. #1573]
Each candidate shall be nominated by not less than 20 nor more
than 30 qualified electors but only one candidate shall be named in
any one nomination paper. No elector may sign more than one nomination
paper for the same office, but each seat on the Council shall be deemed
a separate office. Any qualified elector may circulate a nomination
petition. In the event there are full terms and short terms to be
filled, the same must be so specified.
[Ord. #856, § 2710; Ord. #1573; Ord. #1864, § 2;
Ord. #1925, § 1; Ord. #1927, § 1]
The nomination petitions shall be presented to the City Clerk
not earlier than the 113th day nor later than 5:00 p.m. of the 86th
day prior to the primary nominating election.
[Ord. #856, § 2711; Ord. #1864, § 2]
The City Clerk or his/her designee, shall, immediately upon
the presentation to him/her of a petition, ascertain and determine
whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of qualified
electors, and shall within five days after the presentation of such
petition to him/her, compare the signatures affixed to the nominating
petition with those on the affidavit of record on file in the Los
Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's Office and void any signature
on the nomination paper which does not compare with that on the affidavit
of record on file with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's
Office. After such examination has been completed, but within five
days of presentation of the nominating petition, the City Clerk shall
affix his/her certificate showing the results of said examination.
[Ord. #856, § 2712]
If by the City Clerk's certificate it shall appear that the
petition has not been signed by the requisite number of qualified
electors it may be amended within five days from the date of said
certificate by the further addition of names. Said City Clerk shall
within five days after such amendment make like examination of the
amended petition and shall certify as to the result of his examination
of the amended petition, but no further amendment shall be allowed;
and provided, further, that no amendment to such petition shall be
allowed after the expiration of the time for filing nomination petitions
as herein provided.
[Ord. #856, § 2713]
If either the original or amended petition shall be found to
be sufficiently signed as herein provided the same shall be filed
by the City Clerk. Said petition when filed shall not be withdrawn
or added to and no signature shall be withdrawn after presentation
to the City Clerk.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 6-15, Judicial Offices Designated,
previously codified herein and containing portions of Ordinance No.
856, was repealed in its entirety by Ordinance No. 1864.
[Ord. #856, § 2715; Ord. #1462; Ord. #1517; Ord.
#2129, §§ 1, 2]
At the time a nominating petition is taken out by a candidate
for any elective office, such candidate shall pay to the City Clerk
a processing fee of $300.
If a candidate chooses not to pay the candidate processing fee
provided for in this section, such candidate shall, at the time of
filing his or her declaration of intention to become a candidate for
office, declare in writing, upon a form prepared by the City Clerk,
the intention to submit an additional petition containing the signatures
of 300 qualified, registered electors of the City supporting his or
her candidacy for such office. In the case of a candidate for the
office of a member of the Council, such signatures shall also be those
of qualified, registered electors of the district from which such
person seeks to be elected.
Such petitions and the signatures thereon shall be in addition
to the nominating petitions and signatures required by the City Charter,
and no name which appears on a candidate's nominating petition and
is counted to meet the requisite number of qualified electors which
must appear thereon shall be counted as a part of the additional petition.
Such petitions shall be prepared in a form substantially similar to
those of nominating petitions and shall be issued to those candidates
who elect not to pay the processing fee provided for in this section.
Such petitions shall be prepared, issued, circulated, signed, filed,
checked, certified, supplemented, and otherwise handled within the
same times and subject to the same procedures, limitations, and requirements
as nominating petitions. In determining the sufficiency of the number
of signatures on a candidate's additional petition, the City Clerk
shall include thereon those signatures of qualified, registered electors
which appear on the candidate's nominating petition but which are
in excess of the required 300 signatures and which otherwise meet
the requirements of this section.
In the event a candidate who initially chooses not to pay the
processing fee determines not to file the additional petition with
the City Clerk, such candidate may, at or before the time of filing
the nominating petition, pay the full $300 processing fee.
No person who fails to comply with the requirements of this
section shall have his or her name placed on the ballot as a candidate
for City office.
The $300 processing fee is non-refundable.
[Ord. #856, § 2716]
The City Clerk shall provide all ballots, blanks, and other
supplies to be used in any election, and all the necessary expenses
therefor shall be paid out of the City Treasury in the same manner
and by the same officers as is provided by the City Charter.
[Ord. #856, § 2717]
Sample ballots need not be printed or distributed for a primary
nominating, general, or special municipal election, except when such
election pertains to an initiative, referendum, or recall measure,
or when so instructed by the Council.
[Ord. #856, § 2718]
Except when so instructed by the Council, polling place cards
need not be printed or distributed for a primary nominating, general,
or special municipal election, unless it is intended, for the holding
of that election, to consolidate some of the regular election precincts
last established for State or County election purposes, in which event
the City Clerk shall prepare polling place cards and mail them to
the voters in the same manner as at general elections.
[Ord. #856, § 2719]
Any candidate who, at the primary nominating election, shall
receive a majority of all the ballots cast for candidates for the
office for which such candidate seeks nomination shall be elected
to such office.
[Ord. #856, § 2720; Added by Ord. #1678]
Each candidate for City Council shall be a resident of the district
for which he/she seeks election, for at least 30 days prior to filing
their nomination papers.
Each candidate seeking election to the offices of Mayor, City
Clerk, City Treasurer and City Attorney shall be a resident of the
City of Compton at least 30 days prior to filing their nomination
petition.
[Ord. #2290]
A Special Municipal Election on a Charter proposal is not required
to be held on the date of an established statewide general election,
an established statewide primary election, or a regularly scheduled
General Municipal Election, and may be held on any established election
date as provided by California Elections Code Section 1000.
[Ord. #2290]
In all particulars not recited in this Ordinance No. 2290 or
in a Council resolution ordering a Charter proposal to be submitted
to the voters of the City, the Special Municipal Election on such
a proposal shall be held and conducted as provided by law for holding
municipal elections.
[Added 10-6-2020 by Ord.
No. 2325]
Pursuant to Section 1304 of the Charter of the City of Compton, the City Council may, by resolution, authorize municipal elections to be conducted wholly by mail ballots in addition to the Calling Elections; Establishing Election Precincts Ordinance set forth in § 6-2 of this chapter. Such elections shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the Charter of the City and the Election Code of the State of California, as now exists or may hereafter be amended.
[Added 2-9-2021 by Ord.
No. 2330]
On October 8, 2019, the Governor signed Assembly Bill 571, setting
campaign limits for elective city offices commensurate with State
limits. Assembly Bill 571 also authorizes a city to set its own campaign
contribution limits different than the State limits. The purpose of
this Section is to comply with the provision of Government Code Section
85702.5 which authorizes a city to impose its own limit on campaign
contributions by ordinance or resolution.
[Added 2-9-2021 by Ord.
No. 2330]
Except as more specifically provided herein, the definitions set forth in the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Government Code Sections 81000, et seq., as amended) shall govern interpretation of this Section 6-24 and are hereby incorporated by reference.
Shall mean any primary, general, or special election, including
a recall election, held within the City of Compton for elective City
office or on a City measure. Each primary, general, or special election
is a separate election for purposes of this section.
Shall mean member of the City Council, the Mayor, the City
Clerk, the City Treasurer and the City Attorney.
[Added 2-9-2021 by Ord.
No. 2330]
The City Council, hereby imposes no limit on the campaign contributions
that a candidate for Elective City office may receive for any separate
City election.
