2001-024-ORD DECLARING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN DISTRICT 5 FOR MAY 5 2001 GENERAL ELECTION ELECTED TO OFFICE

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ORDINANCE NO. 2001-024 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, DECLARING THE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN DISTRICT 5 FOR THE MAY 5, 2001, GENERAL ELECTION ELECTED TO OFFICE; DETERMINING THAT NO ELECTION BE HELD IN DISTRICT 5; DIRECTING THAT A COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE BE POSTED AT APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACES; DIRECTING THAT CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION BE ISSUED TO THE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF APRIL 9, 2001. WHEREAS. the City Council of the City of Paris did heretofore, on the 12th day of February, 2001, in Resolution No. 2001-009, order the regular municipal election for the City of Paris to he held on the 5th day of May, 2001, by the qualified voters in Districts 4,5, and 7 of the City of Paris; and, WHEREAS, the City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham, being the authority responsible for having the official ballot prepared, has certified, in writing, that the candidate for 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 V.T.C.A., Election Code, Section 2.053, it is deemed appropriate that the candidate for District 5 be declared elected to office and that no election be held in that 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 5, 2001, general election, the candidate for District 5, John F. Bell, 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 10,2001. Section 3. That, in accordance with V.T.C.A., 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 District 5.