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Bill Tracking - 2011 session> Legislation Page 3 of 15 printed on the ballots to be used in any municipal election for the election of Mayor and City Council members the names of all candidates who have been nominated by petition and no others. A nominating petition shall conform substantially to the following requirements: (1) Such petition shall state the name and place of residence of each person whose name is presentedfor a place upon the ballot, and shall request such person or persons to become a candidate or candidates for the office of Mayor or City Council. (2) Such petition shall be signed by at least one hundred and twenty-five (125) qualified electors of the city and shall contain the residence address of each elector and an affidavit of any other qualified voter who witnessed said signatures. (3) Each elector signing a petition may subscribe to one nomination for each of the places to be filled at the ensuing election, and no more. (4) Such petition shall not be signed by any elector prior to the first Tuesday in January of the year of such election, and such petition shall be filed with the general registrar of the city not later than the time fixed for the closing of the polls on the first Tuesday in June of the year of the election. b. Any person whose name has been submitted for candidacy by petition as herein provided, shall file his or her acceptance of such candidacy with the general registrar of the city not later than the time fixed for the closing of the polls on the first Tuesday in June of the year of the election, otherwise that name shall not appear on the ballot. The filing of such acceptance shall be deemed equivalent to the filing of notice of candidacy under the general election laws of the State, and no other notice of candidacy need be given by the person filing the same. c. No person may be a candidate for the office of Mayor and office of City Council member in the same election. d. Candidates for the offices of Mayor and City Council member shall appoint one campaign treasurer and file the name and address of said campaign treasurer with the Portsmouth Electoral Board not later than the first Tuesday of June of the year of the election. Any candidate who fails to appoint and report the appointment of a treasurer shall be deemed to have appointed him/herself treasurer. All candidates for such offices shall comply with the applicable provisions of Chapter 9 of Title 24.2 of the Code of Virginia. 93.03. Election of Mayor and City Council Members. a. On the first Tuesday in May in nineteen hundred seventy-four, and on the first Tuesday in May of every fourth year thereafter, there shall be a general election at which time the qualified voters of the city shall elect three City Council members for terms of four years. On the first Tuesday in May nineteen hundred seventy-six, and on the first Tuesday in May of every fourth year thereafter, there shall be a general election at which the qualified voters of the city shall elect a Mayor and three Council members for terms of four years. All terms shall begin on the first day of July next following the date of their election. However, beginning in 2012, the municipal election shall be held at the time of the November general election with terms to commence on January 1. No term ofa Mayor or member of Council elected in 2008 or 2010 shall be shortened in implementing the change to the November election date. The Mayor and members of Council who were elected at a May general election and whose terms are to expire as of June 30 shall continue in office until their successors have been elected at the November general election and have been qualified to serve. b. The candidates at any municipal election for the election of City Council members, equal in number to the places to be filled, who receive the largest number of votes cast at such election shall be declared elected to the office of City Council. The candidate for Mayor who receives the largest number of votes at any municipal election shall be declared elected to the office of Mayor. c.In the event any member of City Council during his or her tenure of office shall desire to be a candidate for the office of Mayor, he or she shall be eligible to do so, but shall tender resignation as a member of City Council not fewer than ten days prior to the final date for the filing of petitions and notices of acceptance as specified herein, such resignation to be effective on December 31st of the election year. Such resignation shall state the council member's intention to run for the office of Mayor and shall require no formal acceptance by the remaining members of City Council and shall be final and irrevocable as of the date it is tendered. d. The remaining two-year term of office of any City Council member who has resigned for the stated purpose of running for httn://lis.vin!inia.Q"ov/cQ"i-bin/leQ"n604.exe?111 +fu1+CHAP0640 n/'i0/2011