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Elected officers must file an annual conflict-of-interest disclosure statement in January, and the city recorder or town clerk must post it online.
Municipal general elections are held in all municipalities on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in odd-numbered years.
An elected municipal officer must stay in office for the elected term and until a successor is chosen and qualified, unless the office becomes vacant under Section 10-3-301.
Municipalities with five- or six-member city councils must hold elections on a four-year cycle to fill specified council and mayoral offices.
City officers are generally elected at large, but a city governing body may choose by ordinance to elect some or all commissioners or council members by district.
Campaign finance disclosure in municipal election. Unless a municipality adopts by ordinance more stringent definitions, the following are defined terms for purposes of this section: "Agent of a candidate" means: a person acting on behalf
Municipal candidates and officeholders may not use campaign-account money for personal use expenditures or other unlawful expenditures.
Some municipal office candidates must file a year-end summary report with the municipal clerk or recorder by a January 10 deadline, with a next-business-day rule if January 10 is not a business day.
A municipal office candidate must keep filing year-end summary reports until filing a statement of account dissolution with the municipal clerk or recorder, and may file that statement and final report at any time.
This section sets notice, filing, office-hours, residency, vacancy, and office-holding rules for municipal elections and officers.
A city recorder or town clerk must give certain municipal candidates a conflict-of-interest disclosure statement, candidates must file the completed statement when they file for candidacy unless an exception applies, and the statement must be posted publicly until the candidate leaves the race or the canvass ends.
Mayoral or council vacancies in a municipality must be filled under Section 20A-1-510.
Municipal councils must set the time and place of regular meetings by ordinance and hold at least one regular meeting each month.
A quorum is defined as four council members in a seven-member council, three in a five-member council, and three in a six-member council form of government, excluding the mayor.
A municipality’s legislative body may require its own members to attend meetings and may set penalties for noncompliance.
The governing body must take and record a roll call vote on ordinances, resolutions, and actions that could create municipal liability, and it must do so in other cases if any member requests it. Ordinances and resolutions must be in writing before the vote.
A council action generally needs a majority of the voting members, unless another law sets a different rule.
A governing body’s action generally cannot be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting unless attendance at that meeting is at least equal to the attendance when the action was approved.
Municipal governing bodies must hold all meetings in compliance with the Open and Public Meetings Act.
Public records. The governing body of each municipality shall keep a journal of its proceedings. The books, records, accounts and documents of each municipality shall be kept at the office of the recorder and approved copies shall be open
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