1999E02-ELECTIONORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS,
CALLING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY 1, 1999,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING THREE (3)
COUNCILMEMBERS FOR SAID CITY; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ,
TEXAS:
THAT an election be held in and throughout the City of Schertz, Texas
(the "City"), for the purpose of electing three (3) Councilmembers for Places 3, 4,
and 5 respectively, to serve for a term of two (2) years.
II
THAT at said election the candidate receiving the highest number of
votes for Places 3, 4 and 5 respectively shall be declared elected for a term of
two years. Any candidate desiring to have his or her name on the Official Ballot
for said election shall, at least forty-five (45) days prior to said election day, file
with the City Secretary an application in writing in the form prescribed by the
Texas Election Code requesting that his or her name be placed on the Official
Ballot and declaring as a candidate for Place 3, 4 or 5. That any person failing to
file said written application for candidacy by the time aforesaid, shall not be
entitled to have his or her name printed on the Official Ballot. That the name of
all eligible candidates whose applications have been duly and timely filed shall be
placed on the ballot pursuant to a drawing as provided by law.
III
THAT all qualified voters of said City shall be entitled to vote in said
election.
IV
THAT the ballots to be used in said election shall be prepared in
conformity with the Texas Election Code, as amended. That in holding and
conducting said election, voter forms, instructions and other materials required
therefore, including the ballots, shall be in both the English and Spanish
language.
V
THAT notice of said election shall be given in accordance with the
provisions of Title 1, Chapter 4, Texas Election Code.
VI
THAT the City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to post
notice of said election, in both English and Spanish languages, on a public
bulletin board at the Municipal Complex of said City, at the pollling place for the
holding of the election, and at one other public place within said City, all of which
notices shall be posted at least twenty (20) days prior to the date set for said
election.
VII
THAT the City Secretary is further authorized and directed to cause
notices of said election to be published one time not more than twenty-five (25)
nor less than ten (10) days prior to the date set for said election in a newspaper
published and of general circulation in the City.
THAT the public importance of this measure and the necessity for
calling the election prior to the date for making application for a place on the
Official Ballot creates an emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring the
suspension of the Charter provision that no ordinance be passed on the day it is
introduced, and such Charter provision is accordingly suspended and this
Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure, and shall take effect and be
in full force immediately from and after its passage on the date shown below.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this the/~XC-/day of
1999.
Mayor, City of Schertz, Texas
ATTEST:
City Secretary, City of Schertz
(SEAL OF CITY)
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
TH E STATE O F TEXAS,
County of Guadalupe
Before me, the undersigned authorfty, on this date personally appeared
to me, who, being by me duly sworn, on his oath deposes and says that he is the Advertising Director of
The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, a newspaper published in said county; that a copy of the within and fore-
going AD was published in said newspaper ' 2 times before the return day named therein,
such publications being on the following dates:
FEBRUARY 19, 1999
FEBRUARY 2b, 1999
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Notary Public, Guadalupe County, Texas