Modesto Municipal Code Art. III Elections

SECTION 300. REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Regular Municipal Elections for the election of officers, other than the elective office of Mayor, and for such other purposes as the Council may prescribe shall be held biennially on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year, to coincide with the statewide general election.

Regular municipal elections for the elective office of Mayor shall coincide with the date of the statewide primary election in even-numbered years. If, at said regular municipal election for the Office of Mayor, held on the date of the statewide primary election, no candidate for the elective office of Mayor for the City of Modesto receives a majority of the valid votes cast for said office, a run-off election shall be held for said office on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of that year to coincide with the regular municipal election of the elective offices of the other members of Council. At said run-off election, the two (2) candidates for the elective office of Mayor receiving the highest number of votes at the prior municipal election shall have their names placed on the ballot for election to said office.

(As amended November 2, 2010, November 6, 2018, and November 8, 2022)

SECTION 301. SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

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

SECTION 302. PROCEDURE FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS.

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

SECTION 303. THE INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL.

Except insofar as is otherwise provided by ordinances hereinafter enacted, the provisions of the Election Code of the State of California, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, governing the initiative, the referendum and the recall of municipal officers shall apply to the use thereof in the City insofar as the same are not in conflict with this Charter.