2005-010-ORD DECLARING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 FOR MAY 7 2005 GENERAL ELECTION ELECTED TO OFFICE

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ORDINANCE NO. 2005-010 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, DECLARING THE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 FOR THE MAY 7, 2005, GENERAL ELECTION ELECTED TO OFFICE; DETERMINING THAT NO ELECTION BE HELD IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 5; DIRECTING THAT A COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE BE POSTED AT APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACES; DIRECTING THAT A CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION BE ISSUED TO SAID UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES ORP ARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris did heretofore, on the 10th day of January, 2005, in Resolution No. 2005-007, order the regular municipal election for the City of Paris to he held on the 7th day of May 2005, by the qualified voters in Districts 4,5, and 7 of the City of Paris; and, WHEREAS, the City Clerk, Janice Ellis, being the authority responsible for having the official ballot prepared, has certified, in writing, that the candidate for Council District 5 is unopposed for election to office with no write-in candidates being declared and that there are no propositions to appear on the ballot; and, WHEREAS, under the authority granted in the Texas Election Code, Section 2.053, it is deemed appropriate that the candidate for Council District 5 be declared elected to office and that no election be held in said District; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That for the May 7, 2005, City of Paris general election, the candidate for Council District 5, Curtis Fendley, having been certified by the City Clerk as being unopposed for election to office with no write-in candidates being declared, be, and he is hereby, declared elected to office, which term shall begin on May 7, 2005. Section 3. That, in accordance with the Texas Election Code, Section 2.053, and because there are no propositions to appear on the ballot, it is hereby determined that no election be held in Council District 5. Section 4. That the City Clerk be, and she is hereby, directed to post a copy of this Ordinance on election day at the polling place that would have been used in the election.