HomeMy WebLinkAbout02054ORDINANCE WO. 1483
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDIOP"ICE NO. 1034 AND
ORDINANCE NO. 1041, PROVIDING THAT ALL CITY
COUNCILRAN POSITIONS SHALL BE AT LARGE, DESIG-
NATING NUMBERS FOR SAID POSITIONS, AND ESTABLISH-
ING bIETHODS OF FILING FOR AND ELECTION TO AND TERMS
OF OFFICE FOR CITY COUNCILMEN.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOW'NSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLED, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOLvS:
Section 1. Ordinance Ao. 1034, passed by the Council on
November 28 11933, anu Ordinance No. 1041, passed by the Council on
August 7, 1934, be and they are each here and hereby repealed; and
all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with Ordin-
ance No. 1483 are here and hereby repealed.
Sec tion 2. From and after the effective date of this
ordinance, The 'position of City Councilman in the City of Port
Townsend, as to all City Council positions, shall be at large; which
is to say, that candidates for all City Council positions shall be
voted upon and elected by the registered voters of the City of
Port Townsend as a whole.
Section 3. From and after the effective date of this
ordinance, every person residing within the City of Port Townsend and
who shall be a registered voter therein, and otherwise qualified
by law, shall be eligible for election to anu qualification for any
City Councilman position in said City.
Section 4. The respective positions of City Councilman
shall hereafter be designated by numbers from one to seven, and shall
be allocated and elected, and terms of office fired, as follows:
There shall be one position, which is hereby designated "Position
No. 4," which shall be for a two year term, and which shall first
be placed upon the ballot at the General City Election in the year
1967. There shall be three positions, respectively designated
"Position No. 1, Position No. 2, and Position No. 3," which shall
each be for a four year term, and which shall be first placed upon
the ballot at the General City Election in the year 1967. Each
position subject to election in the year 1967 shall be in replace-
ment of councilman terms expiring at that time. There shall be three
positions, respectively designated "Position No. 5, Position No. 6
and Position No. 7," which shall each be for a four year term, and
which shall first be placed upon the ballot at the General City
Election in the year 1969. Each position subject to election in the
year 1969 shall be in replacement of Councilman terms expiring
at that time.
Section 5. Every person who shall file a Declaration of
Candidacy for the position of City Councilman, as provided by law,
shall declare in writing, and as a part of his Declaration of Candi-
dacy, the number of the position for which he then declares, and he
shall not thereafter be permitted to declare or file for a councilman
position of any other number at the election then impending and for
which filings are then open, nor to change his declaration to embrace
any position not named in his original Declaration of Candidacy.
Read for the first, second and third times, passed by the
Council and approved by the 14a,yor on January 18, 1966.
DENNIS SULLIVAN
Mayor