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 Farmers Branch
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER
 Article VII. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS

  § 7.03. Nominations.  

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  • Any person, having the qualifications required by this Charter, may be nominated for the Council by petition of sufficient number of qualified voters of the City, in the case of a person seeking election to the office of mayor, or by petition of sufficient number of qualified voters of the District in which the person resides, in the case of person seeking election to the office of Councilmember Districts 1 through 5, respectively, to satisfy the requirements of State law, who shall be designated as the candidate's sponsors. Such petition must comply in all respects with the requirements of this Charter and State law. No voter shall sign more than one such petition for any one Council place, and should a voter do so, the voter's signature shall be void except as to the petition first filed. With each signature shall be stated the place of residence of the signer, giving the street and number or other description sufficient to identify it and such other information as shall be required by State law. Nominating petitions shall be signed and filed not earlier than ninety days nor later than thirty (30) days before the election with the City Secretary. Nominations shall be accepted in writing by the nominees, and shall be acknowledged by such nominee before the City Secretary or other person authorized to administer oaths under the law of the State of Texas. The petition shall be in substantially the following form:

    "We, the undersigned voters of the City of Farmers Branch, hereby nominate and sponsor ____________, whose residence is ____________, for the office of [insert Mayor place or District No.____ as applicable], to be voted for at the election to be held on the ________ day of ____________, 20 ___; and we individually certify that we are qualified to vote for the candidate for the Council hereby nominated and that during the current election we have not signed any other nominating petition for the council place for which we are now nominating the above candidate."

    Name, Street Number and Address from which last registered (if different)

    ____________ Date of Signing

    (SPACES FOR SIGNATURES AND REQUIRED DATA)

    Acceptance of Nomination

    "I do hereby declare that I accept the nomination for the Council and agree to serve if elected. I am ____________ years of age, a qualified voter of the City of Farmers Branch, a resident of the United States, and have been a resident of the City of Farmers Branch or an area now within the corporate limits of the City for at least one year. I am not in arrears in the payment of any taxes or other liability due the City. At the present time I reside at ____________ Street in the City of Farmers Branch."

    Signature of candidate ____________

    Date and hour of filing ____________

    Received by _____________________

    (Signature of city secretary)

    STATE OF TEXAS

    COUNTY OF DALLAS

    BEFORE ME the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared ____________ known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and who acknowledged to me that the same was subscribed as his or her free act and deed for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.

    GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS ______ Day of ___________, 20____________.

    _________________________

    Notary Public, State of Texas

(Amd. no. 14, 4-3-1971; amd. nos. 18, 28, 1-21-1989; Ord. No. 3503, Exh. A, 5-15-2018 )