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Utah Code § 10-3-205

Municipalities with five- or six-member city councils must hold elections on a four-year cycle to fill specified council and mayoral offices.

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“Municipalities with five- or six-member city councils must hold elections on a four-year cycle to fill specified council and mayoral offices.”

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Subsection 10-3-205(2)(b)

for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a term of four years, mayor.

Section 10-3-205(2)(b)

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part 10-3-2 Election of Governing Body

§ 10-3-205Election of officers in municipalities operating under a city council form of government.Provision

Municipalities with five- or six-member city councils must hold elections on a four-year cycle to fill specified council and mayoral offices.

Election of officers in municipalities operating under a city council form of government. Each municipality operating under a five-member or six-member city council form of government shall hold municipal elections to fill, for a term of four years, the following offices in the following years: in the year following a year in which a presidential election is held, the offices of: approximately half the council members; and except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), mayor; and in the year preceding a year in which a presidential election is held, the offices of: the remaining council members; and for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a term of four years, mayor.
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§ 10-3-205(1)Subsection 10-3-205(1)Provision

in the year following a year in which a presidential election is held, the offices of: approximately half the council members; and except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), mayor; and

in the year following a year in which a presidential election is held, the offices of: approximately half the council members; and except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), mayor; and
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§ 10-3-205(1)(a)Subsection 10-3-205(1)(a)Provision

approximately half the council members; and

approximately half the council members; and
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§ 10-3-205(1)(b)Subsection 10-3-205(1)(b)Provision

Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), mayor.

except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), mayor; and
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§ 10-3-205(2)Subsection 10-3-205(2)Provision

The subsection refers to the offices of the remaining council members, and to the office of mayor for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a four-year term, in the year before a presidential election year.

in the year preceding a year in which a presidential election is held, the offices of: the remaining council members; and for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a term of four years, mayor.
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§ 10-3-205(2)(a)Subsection 10-3-205(2)(a)Provision

the remaining council members; and

the remaining council members; and
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§ 10-3-205(2)(b)Subsection 10-3-205(2)(b)Provision

for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a term of four years, mayor.

for a municipality that elected a mayor in 2015 for a term of four years, mayor.
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