2011-007 ORD UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE DISTRICT 5 FOR MAY 14, 2011 ELECTION

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ORDINANCE N0. 2011-007 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, DECLARIIVG AN UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 FOR THE MAY 14, 2011, GENERAL ELECTION BE ELECTED TO OFFICE; DETERMINING THAT NO GENERAL ELECTION BE HELD IN DISTRICT 5; DIRECTING THAT A COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE BE POSTED AT APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACE; DIRECTING THAT A CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION BE ISSUED TO THE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris did heretofore, on the 24th day of January, 2011, in Resolution No. 2011-003, order the regular municipal election for the City of Paris to he held on the 14th day of May 2011, 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 District 5 is unopposed for election to office with no write-in candidates being declared 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 general election be held in that District; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 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 14, 2011 general election, the candidate for the District 5, Matt Frierson, having been certified by the City Clerk as being unopposed for election to office with no write-in candidates being declared, be, and is hereby, declared elected to office, which term shall begin on May 14, 2011. Section 3. That, in accordance with V.T.C.A., Election Code, Section 2.053, it is hereby determined that no elections be held in 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 general election.