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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: -1- .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. -2- 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 JLW-: j h -3- 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. �� �� ��- � a%�_