Sections 14, 17, 83 and 92

Section 14. Requirements of petition - how signed - filing date - notification.
Signatures to nominating petitions need not be appended to one paper. Each signer of a petition shall sign his or her name in ink and, after his or her name, shall designate his or her address by street and number or other description sufficient to identify the place.

All separate papers comprising a nominating petition and declaration of candidacy shall be assembled and filed with the election authorities as one instrument at least ninety (90) days prior to the date of holding the primary election with respect to which such petition is filed. Within twelve (12) days after the filing of such nominating petition the election authorities shall notify the person therein as a candidate whether the petition is found to satisfy all the prescribed conditions.

Section 17. Voting for candidates not regularly nominated.
In no case shall an elector vote for more than one candidate for Mayor and for more than the number of candidates to be elected for Council as hereinafter provided.

Any person, not regularly nominated but desiring to be a candidate, shall comply with the requirements of state law to be a write-in candidate. Such declaration shall be on the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and shall be filed with the election authority no later than four p.m. of the seventy-second day before the election.

When a valid declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate has been timely filed with the election authority, a blank space shall be left on the ballots below the printed names of the candidates for Mayor and for Council. Any person so voted for shall be considered a candidate in the counting of ballots just as if he or she had been regularly nominated, but in no case shall an elector vote for more than one candidate for Mayor and for more than the number of candidates to be elected for Council.

Section 83. Elections on Referendum and Initiative Petitions.
Elections as to initiative and referendum petitions shall be held at the next regular general or primary election occurring not less than ninety (90) days after the Clerk certifies the issue to the election authorities.

Section 92. Requirements of petition.
A petition to initiate an ordinance, or for a referendum of an ordinance or resolution, or of an amendment to this charter, need not be made on one paper, but may be the aggregate of two or more petition papers. Each signer of a petition paper shall sign his or her name in ink, and shall place thereon, after his or her name, his or her place of residence by street and number. Petitioner shall use the standard petition forms published by the Secretary of State and as applicable to the subject of their petition.

Clerk shall certify a copy of the amendment to the Ohio Secretary of State.

Copies of the proposal are available in the office of the Clerk of Council.

Julie A. Gibbons
Clerk of Council
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