Any member of the city council or the mayor may be removed from
office by a recall election held in accordance with this chapter.
The question of any number of members of said city council may
be submitted at the same election, but as to each member whose removal
is sought, a separate petition shall be filed and there shall be an
entirely separate ballot proposition.
If a majority of the votes cast on the question of recalling
the mayor or a city council member be against recall, the officer
shall continue in office for the remainder of the unexpired term,
but subject to recall as before. If a majority of such votes be for
the recall of the officer on the ballot, the officer shall, regardless
of any defects in the recall petition, be deemed immediately removed
from office, and shall not holdover in office until a successor is
duly qualified and sworn in.
Vacancies shall be filled by special election in the manner
required by law.
No recall shall be filed against the mayor or councilman within
three (3) months after he takes office, or in the case of a mayor
or council members subjected to a recall election and not removed
thereby until at least six (6) months after that election.
Should the council fail or refuse to order an election as herein
provided for the recall of any elective officer or officers when all
the requirements for such election have been complied with by the
petitioning citizens, in conformity with this chapter of the charter,
then it shall be the duty of any one of the district judges of Tarrant
County, Texas, upon proper application being made therefor, to order
such election and to enforce the carrying into effect of the provisions
of this chapter of the charter.