11-1368 Charter Amendment - Election Qualifying and Petition Deadline dates

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Any person seeking election to the City Commission who is unable to pay the one percent qualifying fee without imposing an undue burden on his or her personal resources or on resources otherwise available to the person shall, upon written certification of such inability given under oath to the City Clerk, be exempt from paying the one percent qualifying fee and may qualify to have his or her name placed on the ballot by means of the following petitioning process: (1) Upon receipt of the written oath from the candidate, the City Clerk shall provide the candidate with petition forms in sufficient numbers to facilitate the gathering of signatures required pursuant to this Section. The petition forms shall indicate the seat for which the candidate is running. (2) When the candidate has filed the oath and received the petition forms prescribed herein, the candidate may begin to seek signatures on the petitions supporting his or her candidacy. Only signatures of qualified electors of the City of Casselberry shall be counted toward obtaining the number of signatures required in this subsection. The candidate shall obtain 100 signatures of qualified electors or the signatures of a number of qualified electors equal to at least two percent of the total number of qualified electors, whichever is the lower. (3) Each petition shall be filed with the City Clerk on or before the third Tuesday in " Aaril. The City Clerk shall determine whether the required number of signatures has been obtained for the name of the candidate to be placed on the ballot and shall notify the candidate. SECTION 2. CONFLICTS. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby revoked. SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. If any section or portion of a section of this Ordinance proves to be invalid, unlawful or unconstitutional, it shall not be held to impair the validity, force or effect of any other section or part of this Ordinance. SECTION 4. CODIFICATION. It is the intention of the City Commission of the City of Casselberry, Florida, and it is hereby ordained that the provisions of this Ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Code of Ordinance of the City of Casselberry, Florida; that the Sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered or re- lettered to accomplish such intention; that the word, "Ordinance" may be changed to "Section," "Article," or other appropriate word. Ordinance No. 11 -1368 Page 2