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Show ORDINANCE NO. 29. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER VIII, Revised Ordinances Ordi-nances of the Town of Milford, 1924, by adding in and to said Chapter new sections to be known as Sections 78x1 to 78x10, inclusive, inclus-ive, relating to elections: BE IT ORDAINED iBY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD, UTAH: Section 1. That Chapter VIII of the Revised Ordinances of the Town of Milford, 1924, relating to elections, be and the same is hereby here-by amended by adding in and to said Chapter new sections to be known as Sections 78x1 to 78x10, inclusive, which shall read as follows fol-lows : Section 78x1. Candidates for president and members of the board of trustees of the Town of Milford shall ibe nominated in the manner following: A certificate of nomination, in writing, containing contain-ing the names of candidates for the offices to be filled, and containing con-taining also the name of the office for which each person is nominated, nominat-ed, the residence of all candidates, and designation in not more than five words the political or other name which the signers shall select, se-lect, shall be signed by voters residing re-siding within the Town of Milford, to the number of at least fifty. The signatures to a certificate of nomination need not all be appended append-ed to one paper. No person shall sign more than one certificate of nomination for any office. Each voter signing a certificate shall add to his signature his place of residence, and shall acknowledge his signature before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgements, acknow-ledgements, and take oath that he is a voter within and for the Town of Milford and has truly stated his residence. Such certificate certi-ficate shall also contain a statement state-ment by the voter that the names of the persons nominated in the certificate will not be printed upon the official "ballot, or upon any party ticket upon the official ballot, bal-lot, otherwise than under the name or device adopted in the certificate. certifi-cate. The officers making up the official ballot shall erase from the certificate any name or names of nominees contained in such certificate certi-ficate that will otherwise appear printed upon the official ballot. Such certificate when executed and acknowledged as above prescribed may be filed as hereinafter provided, pro-vided, Section 7x3. Certificates of nomination of candidates shall be filed with the town clerk not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before election. Section 78x3. No certificate of nomination shall contain the names of more candidates for anv office than there are places to fill; but If any such certificate does con-ttain con-ttain the names of more candidates than there are places to fill, only those names which come first in order on such certificates and are equal in number with the number of places to (be filled shall be taken as nominated, and all other names shall be treated as surplusages. Section 78x4. The town clerk shall cause to be preserved In his office for two yenrs all certificates of nomination filed therein under the provisions of this chapter. All such certificates shall Ibe open to public Inspection under proper regulations to foe made by the officers of-ficers with whom the snmo are filed. Section 78x5. Before an election to fill any public office the town clerk shall publish in a newspaper published within tho town, or post In at leant three conspicuous places within the town, a list of nil the nominations to offices certified to him under the provisions of this ordinance, and the name nnd the party, or other designation, of each candidate. Such publication shall lw as far ns possible in the form of the official ballots, nnd shall be made if published in a newsnaper in the last Issue before the day of election, or if posted not les-s than six days nor more than ten days prior to the day of election. Section 7fWi. The town clerk shall, at least four days before election day, send to the registration registra-tion agent In each election district In the town, at lenst five, but not more than ten, cople of the print- ed sample ballots required by law to be printed. Such sample ballots, bal-lots, at least three days before the day of election, shall be conspicuously conspicu-ously posted by the registration agents in one or more public places in their respective election districts dis-tricts of the town, one or more of which shall 'be posted where such election is to be held. Section 78x7. All certificates of nomination which are in apparent conformity with the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed to be valid, unless objection thereto shall be duly made in writing within three days after the filing of the same. In case such objection objec-tion is made, notice thereof shall forthwith be mailed to all the candidates can-didates who may be affected thereby, there-by, addressed to them at their respective postoffice addresses, if any, or places of residence as riven in the certificate of nomination. nomina-tion. The officer with whom the original certificate was filed shall pass upon the validity of such objection, ob-jection, and his decision shall be final; provided, that he shall decide de-cide such objection within at least fortv eight hours after the safe is filed, and any objection sustained sustain-ed may be remedied or the defect n.ay be cured by an amendment of the original certificate, or by filing fil-ing a new certificate within three days after such objection is sustained. sus-tained. Section 78x8. Any person nominated nomi-nated for public office as in this ordinance provided may in writing duly sirned and acknowledtred by him. notify the officer with whom the orisrinal certificate of his nomination nomi-nation was filed that he declines the nomination. Such notice shall le given to the town clerk not less than twelve days before the election. elec-tion. In the event such notice is riven, the nomination shall be void, and the name of such person shall not be printed on the partv ticket of the party certifying his nomination. The officer to whom such notification is given shall forthwith inform, by mail or otherwise, other-wise, one or more persons whose names are attached to the original certificate of nomination that such nomination has been declined. Section 78x9. If any persons so nominated resigns or declines the nomination as in this ordinance provided, or dies, before election day. or if any certificate of nomination nomi-nation is insufficient or inoperative inopera-tive because of failure to remedy or cure the same, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled by a vacancy committee to be named in the original certificate certifi-cate of nomination by those signing sign-ing the same. The vacancy committee com-mittee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a certificate cer-tificate setting forth the cause ot vacancy, the name of the person nominated with his postoffice address, the office for which hf was nominated, the name of the person for whom the new nominee is to ibe substituted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies, and such further information in-formation as is required to be given in an original certificate ol nomination. Tho certificate so made shall be executed and sworn to in the manner prescrilod for the original certificate of nomination, nomina-tion, and shall, upon being filed at least eight days before the election, elec-tion, have the same force and effect ef-fect as an original certificate of nomination. Section 78x10. That if any section, sec-tion, subsection, sentence, clause or paragraph of this ordinance is, for any reason, hold to be unconstitutional, uncon-stitutional, void or unlawful, such decision shall not affect the remaining re-maining portions of this ordinance. Section 2. In the opinion of the beard of trustees it is necessarv to the peace, health and safety of tho inhabitants of the Town of Milford, I'teh, that this ordinance become1 effective immediately. Section 3. This ordinance shall lake effort upon its first publication. publica-tion. Passed by the Hoar, I of Trustees of the Town of Milford, Heaver County, Utah, this 7th day of October, Oc-tober, 1937. GEORGE- LITCHFIELD, President Pro Tern of the Heard of Trustees. ATTEST: VKKNON M. m'RN'S, Town Clerk Voting for: Three. Voting ngainst: None. |