The City Manager Plan of Municipal Government (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City Manager Plan of Municipal Government Section 1. Nominations of candidates for the council shall be by petition, signed by electors (who have signed no other petition to nominate a candidate for the council at the same election) to the number. In municipalities of not more than ten thousand inhabitants. Of three per cent of the number of electors who voted at the last preceding regular municipal election; to the number, in municipalities of more than ten thousand but not more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants of two per cent of the number of electors who voted at the last preceding regular municipal election; and to the number. In municipalities of more than twenty-dve thousand inhabit ants, of one and a half per cent of the number of electors who voted at the last preceding regular municipal election; provided. However. That in no case shall the number required be more than two hundred. Each such petition shall be signed. Filed. And verified in the manner prescribed by general law, shall contain the signed consent of the candidate. And shall be filed with the election authorities at least thirty days prior to the election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.