§ 14. Same—Qualifications; vacancies.
Only citizens entitled to vote and residents and voters of their respective wards and having the proper qualifications hereinbefore provided shall be eligible to be elected to the office of councilmen [councilman] from their respective wards and at large, and each councilman so elected from a ward shall continue to be a resident of the ward from which he is elected during his entire term of office.
At elections held pursuant to Section 35 of this act [this Charter], there shall be elected one member of the council from each ward and six members of the council from the city at large. If any person elected to council fails to qualify within seventy-five days after he is declared elected, or resigns as a member of the council, or ceases to be a resident of the ward from which he is elected, then his office shall thereby be vacated and the council shall fill such vacancy by the election of some qualified person for such unexpired term. No person shall be declared elected by the council unless he receives the votes of at least a majority of the members elected thereto and the minutes of such meeting shall show that fact.
(Ord. No. 6050, 12-5-1994; Ord. No. 7597, 10-21-2013)