12-1004. Election and tenure of commissioners in cities of 18,000 or less.
12-1004
12-1004. Election and tenure of commissioners in cities of 18,000 or
less.
In all cities of the first class with a population of 18,000 or less now
governed by the city-manager act, where commissioners for such cities have
heretofore been selected according to existing law, the city commissioners
shall be selected hereafter at regular city elections as follows, to wit:
Two commissioners shall be elected to hold office until the next regular
city election in 1925; one commissioner shall be elected to hold office
until the regular election in 1927; all of which commissioners shall be
elected at the next regular city election in 1923, the person receiving the
largest number of votes at said election shall thereby be elected to the
four-year term of office last above mentioned.
All commissioners elected as provided herein shall hold office until the
dates above designated or until their successors shall have been elected
and qualified. At the regular election in 1925 one commissioner shall be
elected to a two-year term of office and one commissioner shall be elected
for a four-year term of office, or until their successors shall have been
elected and qualified, the person receiving the largest number of votes at
such regular city election to be thereby elected to the four-year term of
office. Thereafter, at each ensuing regular city election there shall be
elected one city commissioner for a two-year term of office and one city
commissioner for a four-year term of office, or until their successors
shall have been respectively elected and qualified. At each regular city
election as last above provided the person receiving the largest number of
votes shall thereby be elected to the four-year term of office as city
commissioner.
History: L. 1923, ch. 91, § 1; March 3; R.S. 1923, § 12-1004.