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ORDINANCE NO. 1304 SERIES 1999 AN ORDINANCE REGARDING WRITE-IN CANDIDATES WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend Section 2.36.050 of the Louisville Municipal Code regarding procedures for write-in candidates, to help ensure the proper conduct of regular municipal elections. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Subsection 2.36.050 of the Louisville Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 2.36.050 Write-in Candidates: In any city election held and conducted in accordance with the Municipal Election Code, no write-in votes for any municipal office shall be counted unless an affidavit of intent has been filed with the city clerk by the person whose name is written in prior to twenty days before the date of the election. The affidavit of intent shall indicate that such person desires the office and is qualified to assume the duties of that office if elected. In any city election held and conducted in accordance with the Uniform Election Code of 1992, the affidavit of intent shall be filed as required by that code. Section 2. If any portion of this ordinance is held to be invalid for any reason, wuch decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining protions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part be declared invalid. Section 3. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict. INTRODUCED, READ, PASSED ON FIRST READING, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED this 6th day of July, 1999. '; T~m Da~-son, ~ayor