File #: O-27-16    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 6/16/2016 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/25/2016 Final action: 7/25/2016
Title: Elections Code Updates - For the purpose of amending and updating Chapters 4.08; 4.20; 4.24; 4.32; 4.40 and 4.44 of the Code of the City of Annapolis concerning polling places; nominations and candidacy; voting and voting machines; board of canvassers; ballot question procedures; and matters generally relating to these amendments and updates.
Sponsors: Ross Arnett
Indexes: Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-27-16 Elections Code Updates.pdf, 2. O-27-16 Staff Report.pdf, 3. O-27-16 Fiscal Impact.pdf, 4. O-27-16 SIGNED.pdf
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Elections Code Updates - For the purpose of amending and updating Chapters 4.08; 4.20; 4.24; 4.32; 4.40 and 4.44 of the Code of the City of Annapolis concerning polling places; nominations and candidacy; voting and voting machines; board of canvassers; ballot question procedures; and matters generally relating to these amendments and updates.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 27-16

Introduced by: Alderman Arnett

Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee


AN ORDINANCE concerning

Elections Code Updates

FOR the purpose of amending and updating Chapters 4.08; 4.20; 4.24; 4.32; 4.40 and 4.44 of the Code of the City of Annapolis concerning polling places; nominations and candidacy; voting and voting machines; board of canvassers; ballot question procedures; and matters generally relating to these amendments and updates.


BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2015 Edition
4.08.100
4.08.110
4.20.030
4.20.050
4.24.010
4.24.030
4.24.170
4.32.010
4.32.040
4.40.080
4.44.100

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Chapter 4.08 - BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS

4.08.100 - Polling places.

The board shall arrange for, and the City Council, where practicable, shall provide a suitable polling place that is:
A. Used by the County;
B. WHERE ONLY ONE POLLING PLACE IS PROVIDED IN A WARD, AS NEAR TO THE CENTER OF THE VOTING POPULATION OF THAT WARD AS POSSIBLE;
C. WHERE A POLLING PLACE IS PROVIDED BY PRECINCT, Aas near to the center of the voting population of each OF THAT precinct as possible; and
CD. To the extent practicable, IN libraries, schools, churches, fire halls, or any other PUBLIC building that is used by the public in general.

4.08.110 - New polling places-Changed polling places.

A. From time to time the board may designate new polling ...

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