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SECTION 27. REGULAR CITY ELECTION. Regular city elections shall be held at the same times and places as general biennial elections for the state and county officers. At each regular city election all elective officers to be elected at that time and all matters submitted to the electors at that time shall be voted upon. The election officers and precincts within the city for such state and county elections shall be the election officers and precincts for regular city elections. SECTION 28. SPECIAL ELECTIONS. In accordance with applicable state statutes, by resolution the council may call and provide for special elections. SECTION 29. NOTICE OF ELECTIONS. In accordance with applicable state statutes, the recorder under the direction of the council, shall give at least ten days' notice of each city election by posting the notice in three public places in each precinct in the city or by publishing the notice twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The notice shall state the officers to be elected at the election, the measures to be voted on at the election and the time and place of election. SECTION 30. QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS. Every legal voter of the state who has been a resident of the city for 20 days immediately preceding the election and who shall have lawfully registered to vote in the city of Sheridan, shall be enTitled to vote at the city election. SECTION 30A. REGULATION OF ELECTIONS. Except as this charter provides otherwise and as the council provides otherwise by ordinances relating to elections, the general laws of the state shall apply to the conduct of all city elections, recounts of the returns therefrom, and contests thereof. SECTION 31. CANVASS OF ELECTION RETURNS. By noon of the day following a city election the returns of the election shall be filed with the recorder, and within 10 days after the election the recorder, and at least one member of the council shall meet and canvass the returns. In all elections held in conjunction with the state and county elections the state law governing the filing and canvassing of returns shall apply. The results of each election shall be entered in the journal of the council. The record shall state the number of votes cast at the election, the number of votes cast for each person, the number of votes cast for and against each measure, the names of the officers elected, and the measures enacted or approved. Tie votes shall be resolved by lot wherever necessary. SECTION 32. CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION. Immediately after completion of the canvass the recorder shall issue a certificate of election to each person elected. The certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts which it states, but the council shall be the final judge of the qualifications and election of its own members, subject, however, to review by a court of competent jurisdiction. Contested elections shall be determined according to law regulating proceedings in contested elections of county officers. SECTION 33. NOMINATIONS. The council shall provide by ordinance the mode for nominating elective officers. |