(a)   The election of city officials shall be conducted in all respects as provided by the laws of Kansas governing the holding of city elections.

(b)   The governing body of the City of Osawatomie, Kansas, shall consist of eight council members and one mayor. Two council members shall be elected from each ward. The mayor shall be elected at large.  The mayor and four council members shall be elected at the election to be held at regular city elections every two years.  One council member from each ward shall be elected at one election, and the other council member from that ward shall be elected at the succeeding election. The council members shall have four-year terms. The mayor shall have a two-year term.

(c)   A regular city election shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November of odd numbered years.

(K.S.A. 25-2101 et seq.; C.O. No. 2, Secs. 2:3; Code 2008; C.O. No. 17; Code 2018)

At all city elections the polls shall be open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m., unless different hours are set and publicly announced by the county election officer.

(K.S.A. 25-2111, 26-206; Code 2008)

(a)   The term of office for newly elected city officials shall commence with and include the first regular meeting of the governing body after the second Monday in January following the election and upon certification of the election by the county election officer.

(b)   Every person elected or appointed to city office, before entering upon the duties of such office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation as specified in K.S.A. 54-106, and amendments thereto, and every such oath or affirmation shall be filed with the city clerk.

(K.S.A. 25-21a01; K.S.A. 25-2120; Code 2018)

(a)   A person shall be qualified to become a candidate for city office by filing a nomination petition or a declaration of candidacy, in accordance with this chapter and with the time, place, applicable fees, and other requirements of Kansas Statutes Annotated 25-205, and amendments thereto. 

(b)   Any nomination petition filed in accordance with this section must be signed by thirty (30) of the qualified electors of the City of Osawatomie, as certified by the County Election Official of Miami County.

(Ord. 3745; Code 2018)