Salinas Municipal Code Art. 3 Elections

General municipal elections of officers and for such other purposes as the Council may prescribe shall be held in the City of Salinas on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year.

All other municipal elections shall be known as special municipal elections.

The Council may provide for the consolidation of any general or special municipal election with any election to be conducted in the county of Monterey, State of California.

(a) All elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California, insofar as the same are not in conflict with this charter.

(b) If, for any municipal election for Mayor or for Councilmember, there shall be no choice between candidates by reason of two or more candidates having received an equal number of votes, then the City Council shall proceed to determine the election of such candidates by lots.

The provisions of the laws of the State of California relating to the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of election officers, and all other particulars in respect to the management of elections, so far as they may be applicable, shall govern all municipal elections, except as otherwise provided in this Charter.