4117ORDINANCE NO. 4117
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
AMENDING SECTION 1.12.090 OF CHAPTER
1.121 TITLE 1, OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO ELECTION PROCEDURES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 1.12.090 of Chapter 1.12, Title 1,
of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby,
amended to read as follows:
01.12.090 CANDIDATE FILING FEES.
.010 A filing fee of twenty-five dollars
($25.00) is hereby established for candidates'
nomination papers for elective offices at munici-
pal elections held in the City of Anaheim.
.020 The filing fee shall be paid to
the City Clerk by each candidate for an elective
office at the time the candidate's nomination
paper is filed with the City Clerk.
.030 The City Clerk shall pay to the City
Treasurer all fees received which shall be deposited
in the General Fund.
.040 Notwithstanding subsection .010 above,
a candidate may submit to the City Clerk a petition
containing four signatures of registered voters for
each dollar of the filing fee, or any portion there-
of, in lieu of the fee otherwise required pursuant
to this Section.
.050 The City Clerk shall furnish to each
candidate, upon request, and without charge there-
for, forms for securing signatures pursuant to this
Section. Such forms shall be made available
commencing 45 days before the first day for circu-
lating nomination papers. No other form except the
form furnished by the City Clerk shall be used to
secure signatures. The substitution of signatures
for fees shall be subject to the following provisions:
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.051 A voter may sign both a
candidate's nomination papers and his or
her in -lieu -filing -fee petition.
.052 Any registered voter may
sign an in -lieu -filing -fee petition for
any candidate for whom he is eligible to
vote.
.053 If a voter signs more
candidates' petitions than there are
offices to be filled, the voter's signa-
tures shall be valid only on those
petitions which, taken in the order they
were filed, do not exceed the number of
offices to be filled.
.054 In -lieu -filing -fee petitions
shall be filed at least 15 days prior to
the close of the nomination period. Upon
receipt of the minimum number of in -lieu -
filing -fee signatures required, or a
sufficient combination of such signatures
and pro rata filing fee, the clerk shall
issue nomination papers provisionally.
Within 10 days after receipt of a
petition, the clerk shall notify the
candidate of any deficiency. The candidate
shall then, prior to the close of the nom-
ination period, either submit a supplemental
petition, or pay a pro rata portion of the
filing fee, to cover the deficiency.
.055 Each candidate may submit
a greater number of signatures to allow
for subsequent losses due to invalidity
of some signatures. The clerk shall not
be required to determine the validity of
a greater number of signatures than that
required by this Section.
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby
declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word
of this chapter of the Code hereby adopted be declared for
any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that
it would have passed all other portions of this chapter
independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as
may be declared invalid.
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SECTION 3.
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within
fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin,
a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated in said City, and thirty (30) days from and after
its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of
April, 1980.
ATTEST:
TY CLERK OF TH CITY OF ANAHEIM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) as.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the for Ordinance No. 4117 was introduced at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 8th day of April,
1980, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of
said City Council held on the 15th day of April, 1980, by the following
vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Overholt, Raywood, Bay, Roth and Seymour
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor'of the City of Anaheim signed said
Ordinance No. 4117 on the 15th day of April, 1980.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of April, 1980.
CITY CIXRK OF THE CI OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4117 and was published once
in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 25th day of April, 1980.
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