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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY/TOWN COUNCIL OF THE CITY/TOWN OF APACHE JUNCTION,
COUNTY OF PIN/IL, ARIZONA ADOPTING THE OPTIONAL PROCEDURE FOR MUNICIPAL
ELECTIONS AS AUTHORIZED -IN ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, SECTION 9-821...01;'
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY/TOWN COUNCIL OF THE CITY/TOWN OF APACHE JUNCTION,
PIN/IL COUNTY, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1:Any candidate who shall receive at the primary election a
majority of all the votes cast shall be declared to be elected to the
office for which he is a candidate effective as of the date of the general
election, and no further election shall be held as to said candidate;
provided that if more candidates receive a majority than there are offices
to be filled, those candidates equal in number to the offices to be filled
with the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
Section 2:Nothing on the ballot in any election shall be indicative of the
support of the candidate.
Section 3:If at any primary election held as above provided there be any
office for which no candidate is elected ,then as to such office, the primary
election shall be considered to be a primary election for nomination of
candidates for such office, and the general municipal election shall be held
to vote for candidates to fill such office.Candidates to be placed on the
ballot at the general municipal election shall be those not elected at the
primary election and, shall be equal in number to twice the number to be
elected to any given office or less than that number if there be less than
that number names on the primary election ballot.Persons who receive the
highest number of votes for the respective offices at such first election
shall be the only candidates at such second election, provided that if there
be any person who, under the provisions of.this ordinance, would have been
entitled to become a candidate for any office except for the fact that some
other candidate received an equal number of votes therefor, then all such
persons receiving an equal number of votes shall likewise become candidates
for such office.
Section 4:The candidates equal in number to the persons to be elected who
receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
Section 5:Whereas, it is necessary for the preservation of the peace, health
and safety of Apache Junction, Arizona, an emergency is declared to exist,
and this ordinance shall become immediately operative and in force from and
after the date of posting hereof.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Common Council of Apache Junction, Arizona
this 13th day of December, 1978.
APPROVED this 13th.day, of December , 1978 by the affirmative vote
of three fourths of the members of the Common Council of Apache .Junction, Arizona.
ATTEST:
Mayor