25-2108a. Time of primary elections; no primary, when.
25-2108a
25-2108a. Time of primary elections;no primary, when.(a) There shall be a primary election of city officers on the Tuesday precedingby five weeks the first Tuesday in April of every year that such city hasa city election, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of thissection.
(b) A primary election shall beheld if needed to reduce the number of candidatesfor each office in the general election to no more than three candidates.No primary election of city officers shall be held unless by holdingsuch primary two or more persons will be eliminated ascandidates foroffice. In the event there are not more than three times thenumber of candidates as there are officers to be elected, the namesof thecandidates for such office shall not appearon the primary election ballots, and there shall be no primary electionfor such office, but the names of such candidates shall be placed on thegeneral city election ballot.
History: L. 1976, ch. 186, § 1;L. 1982, ch. 157, § 5;L. 2008, ch. 165, § 3; July 1.