Bill Text: GA HB108 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Maysville, City of; elections and ward boundaries; change provisions

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-03-15 - Effective Date [HB108 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB108-Enrolled.html

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11 LC 28 5370/AP

House Bill 108 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)

By: Representatives Benton of the 31st and Harden of the 28th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act providing for a new charter for the City of Maysville, approved June 2, 2010 (Ga. L. 2010, p. 3959), so as to change the provisions regarding election of members of the city council and to establish ward boundaries and provide for election of members from such wards; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act providing for a new charter for the City of Maysville, approved June 2, 2010 (Ga. L. 2010, p. 3959), is amended by revising Section 5.11 to read as follows:

"SECTION 5.11.
Regular elections; time for holding.

(a) There shall be a municipal general election on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, 2011, and every two years thereafter.

(b) The mayor and those members of the city council who are serving as such on December 31, 2009, and any person selected to fill a vacancy in any such office shall continue to serve as such members until the regular expiration of their respective terms of office and until their successors are duly elected and qualified and taken the oath of office.

(c) For the purposes of electing members of the city council, the territory of the City of Maysville is divided into four voting districts or wards, to be designated Ward 1, Ward 2, Ward 3, and Ward 4, which shall be and correspond to those four numbered districts described in and attached to and made a part of this Act and further identified as Plan Name: maycc02 Plan Type: Local User: staff Administrator: Maysville.

(d) When used in such attachment, the terms 'Tract' and 'BG' (Block Group) shall mean and describe the same geographical boundaries as provided in the report of the Bureau of the Census for the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. The separate numeric designations in a Tract description which are underneath a 'BG' heading shall mean and describe individual Blocks within a Block Group as provided in the report of the Bureau of the Census for the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. Any part of the City of Maysville which is not included in any such district described in that attachment shall be included within that district contiguous to such part which contains the least population according to the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia. Any part of the City of Maysville which is described in that attachment as being in a particular district shall nevertheless not be included within such district if such part is not contiguous to such district. Such noncontiguous part shall instead be included within that district contiguous to such part which contains the least population according to the United States decennial census of 2000 for the State of Georgia.

(e) No person shall be eligible to serve as a councilmember representing a ward unless that person is a resident of the ward such person seeks to represent at the time of qualifying for the election for councilmember and continues to reside in such district during that person's period of service. Each councilmember shall be elected by a plurality vote of the qualified electors residing within his or her respective ward at the elections of the city.

(f) The mayor shall be elected by a plurality vote of the qualified electors of the city at large voting at the elections of the city.

(g) The members of the city council shall be elected as provided in this subsection. The mayor and the members from Ward 2 and Ward 4 under the staggered election system shall be elected at the general election on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2011. The mayor and those members of the city council elected thereto from Ward 2 and Ward 4 in 2011 shall take office the first day of January immediately following that election and shall serve for terms of office which expire December 31, 2015, and upon the election and qualification of their respective successors. The members from Ward 1 and Ward 3 under the staggered election system shall be elected at the general election on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2011. The members of the city council elected thereto from Ward 1 and Ward 3 in 2011 shall take office the first day of January immediately following that election and shall serve one two-year term of office which will expire December 31, 2013, and upon the election and qualification of their respective successors. The members from Ward 1 and Ward 3 shall then be elected for a full four-year term at the municipal general election in November, 2013, held pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Thereafter all future successors to the mayor and members of the city council whose terms of office are to expire shall be elected at the time of the municipal general election provided for in subsection (a) of this section immediately preceding the expiration of such terms, shall take office the first day of January immediately following the election, and shall serve for terms of office of four years each. The mayor and members of the city council shall serve for the terms of office specified therefor in this subsection and until their respective successors are elected and qualified."

SECTION 2.

The governing authority of the City of Maysville shall through its legal counsel cause this Act to be submitted for preclearance under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, not later than 45 days after the date on which this Act is approved by the Governor or otherwise becomes law without such approval.

SECTION 3.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.