2001E03-ELECTIONBY THE CITY
CALLING AN
FOR THE PUl
MEMBERS F
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY
TEXAS:
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE
.~OUNCIL OF THE CITY OF $CHERTZ, TEXAS,
ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY 6, 2001
RPOSE OF ELECTING THREE (3)COUNCIL-
'OR SAID CITY; AND DECLARING AN
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ,
THAT an electi~on 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.
THAT at said
of votes for Places 3, zl
of two years.. Any ca~
Ballot for said election st
file with the City Secreta
Texas Election Code re
Ballot and declaring as a
to file said written appli(
entitled to have his or h;
all eligible candidates wi'
placed on the ballot purs
election.
THAT all qualil
II
election the candidates receiving the highest number
and 5, respectively, be declared elected for a term
~didate desiring to have his or her name on the Official
~all, at least forty-five (45) days prior to said election day,
ry an application in writing in the form prescribed by the
~uesting that his or her name be placed on the Official
candidate for Places 3, 4 and 5. That any person failing
:ation for candidacy by the time aforesaid, shall not be
.~r name printed on the Official Ballot. That the name of
~ose applications have been duly and timely filed shall be
uant to a drawing as provided by law.
III
ied voters of said City shall be entitled to vote in said
THAT the bal
conformity with the Te)
conducting said electio~
therefore, including the
language.
THAT notice
provisions of Title 1, Ch~
THAT the Cit~
notice of said election,
bulletin board at the Mu~
holding of the election, a
notices shall be posted
election.
THAT the City
notices of said election
nor less than ten (10) d~
published and of genera
THAT the pub
calling the election prio~
Official Ballot creates an
suspension of the Chart~
IV
ots to be used in said election shall be prepared in
as Election Code, as amended. That in holding and
, voter forms, instructions and other materials required
ballots, shall be in both the English and Spanish
v
~f said election shall be given in accordance with the
~pter 4, Texas Election Code.
VI
Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to post
in both English and Spanish languages, on a public
~icipal Complex of said City, at the pollling place for the
nd at one other public place within said City, all of which
at least twenty (20) days prior to the date set for said
VII
Secretary is further authorized and directed to cause
:o be published one time not more than twenty-five (25)
~ys prior to the date set for said election in a newspaper
circulation in the City.
VIII
lic importance of this measure and the necessity for
to the date for making application for a place on the
emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring the
;r provision that no ordinance be passed on the day it is
introduced, and such ,2,harter provision is accordingly suspended and this
Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure, and shall take effect and be
in full force immediately :rom and after its passage on the date shown below.
PASSED, APPROVED
2001.
ATTEST:
City Secretary, City of S(
(SEAL OF CITY)
~ND ADOPTED this the ~
:hertz
~'~ MaWr Ci~, ' J~~~'"~ty ~f Schertz, Texas
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Guadalupe
B~)~o ~n~.~orityj on thi.s., date personally appeared
_ _ known~:"to me, who, being by me duly sworn, on
her oath deposes and says Ihat she is the Advertising Director of The Seguin Ga.z. ette-
Enterprise, a newspaper pu ~lished in said county; that a copy of the within and
foregoing notice was publis ~ed in said newspaper /~ time(s) before the return day
named therein, such publica.tions being on the following dates:
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and a newspaper copy of wi ich is hereto a~ached.
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Sw~~d subscribed belo, me this. ~ ~ day of
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, A.D., 2001.
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