Except as this charter or a Metro ordinance provides otherwise, a Metro election shall conform to state law applicable to the election.
(1)
Generally. Except for certain elections to fill a vacancy in office, the first vote for Councilor, Council President or Auditor occurs at an election held at the same time and places in the Metro Area as the statewide primary election that year. If one candidate for a Metro office receives a majority of the votes cast at the primary election for all candidates for that office, that candidate is elected. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast at the primary election, the candidates receiving the two largest numbers of votes cast for the office are the only names to appear on the general election ballot that year as candidates for that office. The candidate who receives the largest number of votes cast at the general election for that office is elected.
(2)
Nonpartisan offices. All elections of Metro officers are nonpartisan. Election ballots shall list the names of candidates for Metro offices without political party designations.
No person may be a candidate at a single election for more than one Metro elected office.
(1)
General Requirements. Within three months after an official census indicates that the boundaries of Council districts deny equal protection of the law, the Council shall change the boundaries to accord equal protection of the law and shall assign Councilors to the reapportioned districts. As nearly as practicable, all Council districts shall be of equal population and each shall be contiguous and geographically compact. The Council may by ordinance specify additional criteria for districts that are consistent with this section.
(2)
Failure to Reapportion. If the Council fails to establish Council district boundaries as provided by this section, the Council President shall establish the boundaries within 60 days.
(3)
Redistricting After Year 2000 Census. Within three (3) months after completion of the year 2000 Census, the Council shall establish six (6) Council districts in a manner that accords equal protection of the law. The three (3) Councilors serving terms that expire in January 2005, shall each be assigned to one of the six (6) districts and their terms shall continue. Council members will be elected to serve four (4) year terms for the other three (3) districts in the regularly scheduled elections to be held in 2002. For the purpose of Section 33 of this charter, the seven (7) councilors in office in January 2001 shall be deemed to be serving in the districts from which they were elected until January 2003.
(1)
Generally. An elected officer of Metro may be recalled in the manner and with the effect described by the constitution and laws of this state.
(2)
Effect of Reapportionment. Upon the effective date of a Council reapportionment under Section 32 of this charter, a Councilor is subject to recall by the voters of the district to which the Councilor is assigned and not by the voters of the district of that Councilor existing before the reapportionment.
The voters of Metro reserve to themselves the powers of initiative and referendum. The Council may provide for the exercise of those powers in a manner consistent with law.
The Council may refer, and voters of Metro may initiate, amendments to this charter. A proposed charter amendment may embrace only one subject and matters properly connected with it. The Council shall provide by ordinance for a procedure to revise this charter.