§ 726. Election when an officer resigns.  


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  • If an officer, for whose recall an affidavit has been filed with the City Clerk, and a petition for the officers recall shall be filed within thirty days next thereafter, or for whose recall a petition is submitted to the Council, shall resign within five days after the filing of such affidavit with the City Clerk (when followed within thirty days next thereafter by the filing of a petition for his recall), or within five days after the submission of such petition to the Council, the election shall be held as hereinbefore provided, except that the official resigning from office may not be a candidate. No vacancy resulting from such resignation of an officer, after the filing of an affidavit for recall, when following within thirty (30) days next thereafter by the filing of petition for recall, shall be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the City Council or of the remaining members thereof, but such vacancy shall be filled by election as hereinbefore provided.

(Ord. No. 051253, § 4, 5-18-06, eff. 9-1-06)