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<br />. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />CHARTER <br /> <br />2.02 <br /> <br />establishment shall be made as soon as practicable prior to the first city election following <br />adoption of this section. Any subsequent establishment shall be made when required by this <br />Charter. <br /> <br />Promptly following the addition of territory to the city by ~ boundary change, the city <br />council shall, by ordinance, add such territory to an adjacent district or districts. <br /> <br />Immediately following publication of the 1980 federal census, and at least every five (5) <br />years thereafter, city council shall conduct an investigation and determine the population of <br />the city and the population of each of the districts from which district council persons are to be <br />'elected. Each such determination shall be based upon the best available data, including, but <br />not limited to, the most recent federal census. Each such determination shall be expressed in <br />an ordinance, which shall be a final determination fQr purposes of this Charter., <br /> <br />After any such determination, if the distribution of population among the various districts <br />is determined by city council to be materially unbalanced, the city council shall establish new <br />boundaries for the' election of district council persons. <br /> <br />c. Election. All candidates for city council shall be voted on and elected separately for <br />positions and districts on said city council, and each candidate shall be designated on the <br />official ballot according to the title of such position or district to which he seeks election. <br /> <br />Any candidate for office receiving a majority of all the votes cast for the office for which he <br />is a candidate shall be elected to such office. In the event any candidate for any office fails to <br />receive a majority of all votes cast for all the candidates for such office, the city council shall <br />call a run-off election to be held not less than twenty-one (21) days nor more than thirty (30) <br />days after the regular election, at which run-off election the two (2) candidates receiving the <br />highest number of votes shall be voted for again. In the event'of a tie in the vote for the two <br />(2) leading candidates, at the regular election, the city council shall hold a second election not <br />less than twenty-one (21) days nor more than thirty (30) days after the regular election, at <br />which said second election the candidates receiving such tie votes shall be voted for again. <br /> <br />d. Thrm of office. The m~yor and council persons shall each hold their respective offices for <br />a term of three (3) years and until their successors shall have been elected and duly qualified. <br /> <br />2.02. Qualifications. <br /> <br />a. Enumerated. The mayor and councilpersons shall be resident electors of the city at the <br />time of filing for office, and continuously during their terms of office. A district council person <br />shall also be a resident of his district at the time of filing for office and continuously during his <br />term of office. <br /> <br />b. Council to be judge of members' qualifications. City council shall be the judge of the <br />election and qualification~ of its members and for such purpose shall have power to subpoena <br />witnesses and require the production of records, but the decision of council in any such case <br />shall be subject to review by the courts. <br /> <br />CHT:7 <br />