Fresno Municipal Code Art. XIV Elections

(a) Beginning in 1996, direct primary elections for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the ensuing general municipal election and for such other purposes as the Council may prescribe shall be held in the City on same date as the statewide direct primary election as provided in the Elections Code of the State of California. If any candidate for a particular office receives a majority of all votes cast for a particular office, that candidate shall be declared elected and no general municipal election shall be held for that office.

(b) Beginning in 1996, general municipal elections for the election of officers and for such other purposes as the Council may prescribe shall be held in the City on the same date as the statewide general election as provided in the Elections Code of the State of California. Notwithstanding subsections 1400(a) and (b), the Council may by ordinance or resolution provide for such elections to be held within thirty-one days of either of such dates for the purpose of consolidation with any election to be conducted in the County of Fresno, State of California.

(Amendments ratified 1965 General Municipal Election; approved, Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 112, filed with Secretary of State on May 20, 1965, Ch. 96, Stat. 1965.)

(Amendment ratified 1975 General Municipal Election.)

(Amendment ratified 1980 Special Municipal Election, June 3, 1980.)

(Amendment ratified 1996 Primary Election, March 26, 1996.)

All other municipal elections that may be held by authority of this Charter, or of any law, shall be known as special municipal election.

A special municipal election shall be held for the election of the first Mayor and first Councilmen under this Charter on the second Tuesday in April following the filing of the concurrent resolution of the Legislature approving this Charter with Secretary of State.

Unless otherwise provided by ordinance 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 hereafter may be amended, for the holding of elections in general law cities so far as the same are not in conflict with this Charter.

There are hereby reserved to the electors of the city the powers of initiative and referendum and of the recall of municipal elective officers. The provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, as the same now exist or hereafter may be amended, governing the initiative and referendum and the recall of municipal officers, shall apply to the use thereof in the City so far as such provisions of the Elections Code are not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter.

Any measure submitted to the voters at a municipal election shall be worded so that a "yes" vote indicates approval of the measure proposed and a "no" vote indicates disapproval.

(Amendment ratified 1993 Primary Election, March 2, 1993.)