General Municipal Elections for the filling of elective office
shall be held in said City on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
of November in each even numbered year commencing with the year 1984.
For those elected officers whose terms are to expire in April
1985, those terms shall expire in November 1984. For those elected
officers whose terms are scheduled to expire in April 1987, those
terms shall expire in November 1986. The elections to fill said office
shall be held on the election days established pursuant to this Article.
The terms of the officers elected in November of even numbered years
shall begin on the first Tuesday following their elections.
The provisions of this Section shall take effect and control
over any other provisions of this Charter in conflict with this Section.
(Amended at Special Municipal Election 6/5/84; Res. No. 6872CCS, adopted 6/26/84)
All other municipal elections that may be held by authority
of this Charter, or of any law, shall be known as special municipal
elections.
A special municipal election shall be held for the election
of the first members of the City Council under this Charter and for
five members of the Board of Education, on the tenth Tuesday following
the approval of this Charter by the Legislature.
Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, hereafter enacted, all
elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections
Code of the State of California, as the same now exist or may hereafter
be amended, for the holding of elections in cities of the sixth class
insofar as the same are not in conflict with this Charter.
Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, hereafter enacted, the
provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California as the
same now exist or may hereafter be amended, governing the initiative,
referendum and the recall of municipal officers, shall apply to use
thereof in the City insofar as such provisions of the Elections Code
are not in conflict with this Charter.
