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<br />• Ordinance No. <br />Page 6. <br />• <br />ballot by filing a petition as provided for in <br />City of La Porte Home Rule Charter, Article 2.04 c.3. <br />Section 10. Said election shall be held in accordance with <br />the provisions of the City Charter of the City of La Porte, and <br />the general election laws of the State of Texas governing general <br />and municipal elections, so far as same may be applicable thereto. <br />Section 11. Immediately after said election, the officers <br /> <br />• <br />holding the same shall make and deliver the returns of the <br />results thereof and the accompanying records for use in the <br />official canvass to the City Council of t~ze City of La Porte, <br />and the City Council shall canvass said returns at the earliest <br />practicable time, and shall, immediately after canvassing the <br />returns, declare the results of the election. The Mayor shall <br />immediately thereafter deliver to the candidate for whom the <br />majority of votes has been polled for each respective office, <br />a certificate of election. Such elected officials shall assume <br />their duties within ten (10) days-thereafter, Sundays excluded, <br />upon their taking the oath of office. <br />Section 12. Each and every prevision, paragraph, sentence <br />and clause of this Ordinance has been separately considered and <br />passed by the City Council of the City of La Porte, Texas, and <br />each said provision would have been separately passed without <br />any other provision, and if any provision hereof shall be ineffec- <br />tive, invalid or unconstitutional, for any cause, it shall not <br />impair or affect the remaining portion, or any part thereof, but <br />the valid portion shall be in force just as if it had been passed <br />alone. <br />. Section 13. This Ordinance. shall be in effect immediately <br />upon its passage and approval. <br />