Sec. 2. Number of signatures required on petition; time when petition to be filed; duty of City Clerk to endorse petitions.
A. Nomination petitions for the office of Mayor shall be in the form prescribed by law and shall contain the signatures of not less than 1,500 qualified electors of the City.
B. Nomination petitions for the office of Council Member shall be in the form prescribed by law and shall contain the signatures of not less than 200 qualified electors of the City residing within the district that the candidate seeks to be nominated from.
C. Nomination petitions for City elective offices may be presented to the City Clerk not earlier than one hundred twenty (120) days nor later than ninety (90) days before the date set for the Mayor and Council Election. The City Clerk shall endorse on each petition or petitions the date when the same was received by him. Signatures on nominating petitions dated more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date set for the Mayor and Council Election shall not be valid.
(Election of 11-5-1985; election of 9-11-2007, § 1)