Title 5, Municipal Corporations

If any municipal election results in a tie, the municipal election commission or the municipal party committee shall conduct a runoff election to break the tie two weeks following that election. In the tie-breaking runoff, the laws of this State apply, mutatis mutandi. If the dat…

(A) A candidate may contest the result of the election by filing a written notice of such contest, together with a concise statement of the grounds therefor, with the Municipal Election Commission not later than noon on the Monday following the certification of the results. If th…

Within ten days after notice of the decision of the municipal election commission, any party aggrieved thereby may appeal from such decision to the court of common pleas. Notice of appeal shall be served on the opposing parties or their attorneys and filed in the office of the cl…

(A) Municipalities are authorized to transfer authority for conducting municipal elections to the county elections commission. County elections commissions are authorized to conduct municipal elections. (B) As a condition of the transfer of authority to conduct elections pursuant…

The mayor and councilmen, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution and also the following oath, to wit: "As mayor (councilman) of the municipality of __________ I will equally, fairly, and impartially, to the …

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a municipal council is authorized by ordinance to provide that the term of office of any commissioner of public works of any municipality of this State which now expires at a time other than the time of the general election for municip…

Any and all actions taken by a commissioner of public works whose term of office expired prior to the adoption of the ordinance provided for by SECTION 5-15-160 are ratified, validated and confirmed.

Section effective January 1, 2027. (A) Notwithstanding another provision of this chapter, a municipal election commission may only be established for municipalities with a population of ten thousand or more, according to the most recent official United States census. (B) Election…

Each municipality in this State shall provide by ordinance for the election of its council. Councils shall select any one of the following methods of election of council: (1) Members of the council elected from the municipality at large. (2) One member elected from each ward of t…

If by action of a majority of council, or if fifteen percent of the registered municipal electors present to the municipal election commission a duly executed petition on which none of the signatures is more than six months old, in which an election is sought to change the number…

The mayor and councilmen of each municipality shall be elected for terms of two or four years. Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, four-year terms shall be set so that not more than one-half of the council and mayor shall be elected in the same general election; provided, tha…

Section effective January 1, 2027. (A) Notwithstanding Section 5-15-40, if the unexpired four-year term of a mayor or member of council began following a general election held: (1) in 2023, then the term expires on the date terms begin for newly elected officers in the municipali…

Section effective January 1, 2027. See, also, section 5-15-50 effective until January 1, 2027. (A) Each municipal governing body may by ordinance establish municipal ward lines and the time for general elections. (B) The time for general elections within a municipality must be es…

Section effective January 1, 2027. See, also, section 5-15-60 effective until January 1, 2027. (A) Each municipality in this State shall adopt by ordinance one of the following alternative methods of nominating candidates for and determining the results of its nonpartisan electio…

In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, election results shall be determined in accordance with the following rules: (1) When more than one person is seeking election to a single office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be d…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, results in nonpartisan municipal elections in municipalities using the election and runoff election method shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast. A majority within the meaning of this section shall be determined as f…

(a) In municipalities whose elections are nonpartisan and which use the nonpartisan primary election and general election method, there shall be a primary election to reduce the field of candidates to two candidates for each position to be filled, if when the filing period closes…

Each municipal governing body shall determine by ordinance the time for filing nominating petitions, holding primary elections or conventions, the time for entry of candidates for nominations in municipal party primary elections or conventions, the time for closing of entries, an…

The results of any political party primary shall be declared by the party conducting the election. Protests and contests shall be filed, heard, and decided in the manner set forth in Sections 7-17-560 and 7-17-570.

(A) All municipal elections held under the provisions of this chapter must be conducted by a municipal election commission composed of three electors who must be residents of the municipality and who must be appointed by the municipal governing body. The terms of the members are …