Monte Sereno Municipal Code Ch. 2.01 City Council

A. Term. A person elected to the City Council at a regular election shall hold office for a term of four (4) years from and after the first meeting at which the results of the canvass of the election are declared and the person is sworn into office and continuing until their respective successors qualify.

B. Term limitation. No person elected to the City Council shall be eligible to serve as a member of the City Council for more than two (2) consecutive four-year elective terms. Any person who has served two (2) consecutive four-year elective terms shall not serve again until at least two (2) years have elapsed since that person last held office. For purposes of this section, any current member of the City Council at the time this section became effective, shall be deemed to have already served one (1), four-year elective term. In addition, any person appointed or elected to the City Council to fill an unexpired term of not more than two (2) years in length shall, thereafter, be eligible to serve two (2) successive four-year elective terms upon the expiration of the unexpired term for which that person was appointed or elected. Any partial term of office longer than two (2) years shall be deemed to be a full four-year term.

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-177, § 1, adopted May 3, 2011, repealed § 2.01.020, entitled "Salary", which derived from: Ord. No. NS-168, § 1, adopted May 5, 2009.