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* Historical Notes:
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Sections 6-19**: Amended Election 10/11/49 effective
12/19/49; Amended Election 10/10/61 effective 2/13/62; Amended Election
6/2/70 effective 8/17/70; Repealed Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71.
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** These section numbers refer to a numbering system
that was in place prior to the Election of 11/8/94.
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A primary municipal election, for the nomination and election
of persons to the elective offices of the City, shall be consolidated
with the statewide direct primary in each even-numbered year or, in
the event no such statewide direct primary is held, shall be held
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered
year. A general municipal election, for the election of persons to
the elective offices of the City, shall be consolidated with the statewide
general election in each even-numbered year or, in the event no such
statewide general election is held, shall be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of November in each even-numbered year.
(Amended Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71; Amended Election 10/9/79 effective 10/24/79; Amended
Election 11/4/86 effective 12/9/86; Amended Election 11/8/94 effective 5/22/95)
All other municipal elections that may be held in the City of
Stockton by the authority of this Charter, of general law, or by ordinance
of the City shall be known as special municipal elections.
(Amended Election 10/12/26; Amended Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71)
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, all elections,
including mail ballot elections, shall be held in accordance with
the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, as
the same may now exist or may hereafter be amended, for the holding
of municipal elections. Any election that does not occur on the same
date as a statewide primary election or statewide general election
may be conducted by mail. The City Council shall have the power to
submit to the electors of the City at any election any question required
to be submitted by the California Constitution, this Charter, general
law, or ordinance of the City; provided that if the California Constitution,
this Charter, general law, or ordinance of the City requires the question
to be submitted at a particular kind of election or within or at a
specified time, it shall be so submitted.
(Amended Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71; Amended Election 11/8/94 effective 5/22/95)
Notwithstanding any provision of the Elections Code of the State
of California to the contrary, nominating papers for candidates for
the City Council and Mayor shall be signed by not less than 10 nor
more than 25 persons. Each signer and each person who circulates a
nominating paper for a candidate for the City Council shall be a resident
and qualified elector of the same City Council district as that of
the candidate. Each signer and each person who circulates a nominating
paper for a candidate for Mayor shall be a resident of the City and
a qualified elector of the City.
(Amended Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71; Amended Election 11/8/94 effective 5/22/95)
In the primary municipal election, the electors in each district
from which a Councilmember is to be elected shall be entitled to vote
for one candidate from their district; and, except as provided in
Section 601, subsection (c), the two candidates for Councilmember
in each district receiving the highest number of votes cast by the
electors of their district shall be the candidates in the general
municipal election. In the general municipal election, the electors
shall be entitled to vote for one candidate from their district in
each district from which a Councilmember is to be elected, and the
candidate for Councilmember in each district receiving the highest
number of votes cast shall be declared elected to such office.
If any provisions of this article or the application thereof
to any persons or circumstances are held invalid, the invalidity shall
not affect other provisions or applications of this article which
can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications,
and to this end the provisions of this article are severable.
(Amended Election 10/12/71 effective 12/6/71; Amended Election 11/4/86 effective 12/9/86; Amended Election 11/8/94 effective 5/22/95; Amended Election 11/8/16 effective 12/3/16)
