No person shall serve consecutive terms as Councilmember, Mayor, or any combination of Councilmember or Mayor that would exceed twelve (12) years. For the exclusive purpose of measuring duration under this provision and for no other purpose, the terms of Mayor and Councilmembers shall be deemed to start and end on December 1st following the general municipal election at which such office, as the case may be, is regularly filled. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any partial term served by a Councilmember or Mayor shall not be considered a consecutive term if it commenced on or after the first (with respect to the Mayor) or second (with respect to a Councilmember) anniversary of the date on which the former incumbent's term commenced, and in such cases the initial consecutive term shall be deemed to have commenced under this section when the Councilmember or Mayor commences his or her subsequent term. Mayors and Councilmembers who were in office on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section may serve only the number of terms allowed at the time of the last election before this provision was enacted.
(Ord. 18-96 § 1; Ord. 17-09 § 1 (part); Ord. 15-24 § 4)