SECTION 300. REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. Regular Municipal Elections for the election of officers and for such other purposes as the Council may prescribe shall be held biennially on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year. If, at a regular municipal election held on the first Tuesday, after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year, no candidate for the elective office of Mayor for the City of Modesto receives a majority of the valid votes cast for said office at said regular municipal election, a second regular municipal election shall be held for said office on the first Tuesday in February of each even-numbered year commencing with the year 2012. At said second regular municipal election, the two (2) candidates for the elective office of Mayor receiving the highest number of votes at the first regular municipal election shall have their names placed on the ballot for election to said office. (As amended November 2, 2010) SECTION 301. SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. All other municipal elections that may be held by authority of this Charter, or of general law, or by ordinance, shall be known as special municipal elections. SECTION 302. PROCEDURE FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS. Unless otherwise provided by ordinances hereafter enacted, all elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, as the same now exist or may hereafter be amended, for the holding of elections in general law cities, insofar as the same are not in conflict with this Charter. SECTION 303. THE INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL. Except insofar as is otherwise provided by ordinances hereinafter enacted, the provisions of the Election Code of the State of California, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, governing the initiative, the referendum and the recall of municipal officers shall apply to the use thereof in the City insofar as the same are not in conflict with this Charter. |