The city council shall each be elected from his or her district,
by a plurality vote of the qualified voters residing in that district,
voting at an election or elections held for that purpose. The mayor
shall be elected from the city at large.
(Amend. of 1/23/68; Ordinance 924, sec. 1, adopted 6/16/92)
The council shall be the judge of any contest of any election
held and shall on the next regular meeting day of said council, after
each regular or special election, canvass the returns and declare
the results of such election.
The regular municipal election of the City of Mexia, shall be
held on the earliest date in the calendar year which is a uniform
municipal election date as determined by the Texas Election Code,
as it may be from time to time amended.
(Ordinance 2011-02-05, pt. 1(a),
adopted 2/15/11)
All elections held in the City of Mexia, except the regular
election held on the first Tuesday in April, A.D. 1925, and on said
day every year thereafter shall be called “special election,”
and said elections shall be conducted and duly canvassed and announced
by the election authorities as prescribed by the general election
laws of the State of Texas, and the general election laws shall control
in all municipal elections, except as otherwise herein provided.
Any qualified person who desires to become a candidate for election
to a place on the city council shall file with the city secretary
at least thirty (30) days prior to the election day an application
for his name to appear on the ballot. Candidates for city council
may also be nominated by petition of one hundred (100) qualified voters
to be filed with the city secretary at least thirty (30) days prior
to the election day provided the candidate signs the petition certifying
his acceptance. Such application shall clearly designate by number
the place on the city council to which the candidate seeks election
and shall contain a sworn statement by the candidate that he is fully
qualified under the laws of Texas and the provisions of this Charter
to hold the office he seeks.
(Amend. of 1/23/68)
For every regular election called to fill places on the city
council, the city secretary shall place upon the official ballot the
name of every candidate who shall file an application which complies
with the provisions of this Charter. The council places to be filled
shall be placed on the ballot in numerical order. The name of each
candidate shall be placed on the ballot under the designated place
for which he shall have filed, and in such manner that the names of
the candidates for each place shall be clearly separate and distinguishable
from the names of the candidates for every other council place. The
order on the ballot of the names of the candidates for each respective
council place shall be determined by lot in a drawing to be held under
the supervision of the city secretary, at which drawing each candidate
or his named representative shall have a right to be present.
(Amend. of 1/23/68)
Editor’s note–The provisions of former
section 7 were repealed pursuant to an amendment by Ord. 92-4, adopted
June 16, 1992, approved at an election held Aug. 8, 1992. The repealed
provisions pertained to the election by majority and runoff elections
for the city council members, and derived from a charter amendment
adopted Jan. 23, 1968.