Inglewood Municipal Code § 2-247 Nomination Residency Requirements

A. All candidates nominated for any city-wide office in the City of Inglewood shall be a resident and a registered voter in the City of Inglewood at the time he or she files nominating papers for a period of not less than thirty days preceding such date of filing.

B. All candidates nominated for any council district in the City of Inglewood shall be a resident and a registered voter of that district at the time he or she files nominating papers for a period of not less than thirty days preceding such date of filing.

C. All candidates nominated for Board of Education shall be a resident and a registered voter of the Inglewood Unified School District at the time he or she files nominating papers for a period of not less than thirty days preceding such date of filing.

(Ord. 99-29 9-28-99; Ord. 05-02 3-1-05)

A. All persons filing nominating papers for elective office in the City of Inglewood or the Inglewood Unified School District shall present to the City Clerk, at the time of the filing of the nominating papers, a petition containing forty signatures of the qualified electors of the City of Inglewood or the Inglewood Unified School District, respectively.

B. The City Clerk shall furnish to each candidate, upon request, and without charge therefor, forms for securing said signatures. The number of forms which the City Clerk shall furnish a candidate shall be a quantity which provides the candidate with spaces for signatures sufficient in number to equal the number of signatures which the candidate is required to secure for the proper filing of nominating papers.

C. No other form, except the form furnished by the City Clerk shall be used to secure signatures. Each petition section shall bear an affidavit signed by the circulator, in substantially the same form as set forth in the California Elections Code.

D. Each candidate may submit a greater number of signatures to allow for subsequent losses due to invalidity of some signatures. The City Clerk shall not be required to determine the validity of a greater number of signatures than that required by this Section.

E. For the purposes of this Section, the requisite number of valid signatures shall be computed from the latest registration figures forwarded to the Secretary of State pursuant to California Elections Code Section 2187 prior to the first day on which petitions are available.

(Ord. 00-18 10-10-00)