Chapter 1.06
CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTIVE OFFICE

Sections:

1.06.010    Nominations.

1.06.010 Nominations.

A. A petition nominating a qualified elector to be a candidate for election to the Sutherlin city council or to the office of mayor shall be signed by not fewer than twenty electors. No elector shall sign more than three nomination petitions for the office of city councilor. No elector shall sign more than one nomination petition for the office of mayor. If an elector signs more nomination petitions than permitted by this subsection, the elector’s signature shall be valid only on the first three such petitions filed for the office of city councilor and only on the first such petition filed for the office of mayor.

B. The signatures supporting a nomination may be submitted on more than one paper. To each separate page of the petition shall be attached an affidavit of that page’s circulator indicating the number of signers on that page and stating that each signature on the page was made in the circulator’s presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. With each signature shall be stated the place of residence of the signer, identified by its street and number or other description sufficient to identify it.

C. All pages comprising a nomination petition shall be assembled and filed with the city recorder as one instrument in the manner provided by state laws for a state-elected office. The city recorder shall make a record of the exact time at which each nomination petition is filed and shall take and keep on file the name and address of the person by whom it is filed.

D. Within five days after the filing, the city recorder shall notify the nominee and the person who filed the nomination petition whether or not the petition is valid. If it is found insufficient, the city recorder shall return it immediately to the person who filed it, with a statement certifying that the nomination petition is insufficient and stating the reason(s).

E. Within the time allowed for the filing of nomination petitions, an insufficient petition may be amended and filed again as a new petition, or a different petition may be filed for the same nominee. Any qualified elector for whom a valid nomination petition has been filed shall have his or her name printed on the ballot for the election if, within five days after the city recorder notifies the nominee of a valid nomination, an acceptance of nomination is filed with the city recorder on the nominee’s behalf.

F. The nomination petition for a nominee who is successfully elected shall be filed in the office of the city recorder until the expiration of the term of office for which the nominee is elected. (Ord. 971 § 1, 2006)