A. A qualified elector may be nominated for an elective city office to be filled at the election. The nomination must be by a petition that specifies the office sought and must be in a form prescribed by the council. The petition shall be signed by not fewer than 20 electors. No elector may sign more than one petition for each office to be filled at the election. If he/she does so, his/her signature will be valid only on the first sufficient petition filed for the office. The signatures to a nomination petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate paper of the petition shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof, indicating the number of signers of the paper and stating that each signature of the person appended thereto was made in his/her presence, and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Opposite each signature shall be stated the date of signing, the signer’s place of residence, identified by its street and number or other sufficient designation.

B. All nomination papers comprising a petition shall be assembled and filed with the recorder as one instrument not earlier than 110, nor later than 75, days before the election. The recorder shall make a record of the exact time at which each petition is filed and shall take and preserve the name and address of the person by whom it is filed. If the petition is not signed by the required number of qualified electors, the recorder shall notify the candidate and the person who filed the petition within five days after the filing. If the petition is insufficient in any other particular, the recorder shall return it immediately to the person who filed it, certifying in writing wherein the petition is insufficient. The deficient petition may be amended and filed again as a new petition, or a substitute petition for the same candidate may be filed, within the regular time for filing nomination petitions. The city recorder shall notify an eligible person of his/her nomination, and that person shall file with the city recorder his/her written acceptance of nomination, in such form as the council may require, within five days of notification of nomination. Upon receipt of the acceptance of nomination, the city recorder shall cause the nominee’s name to be printed on the ballots. [Ord. 963 § 3, 2020.]