2001-024-ORD DECLARING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATE IN DISTRICT 5 FOR MAY 5 2001 GENERAL ELECTION ELECTED TO OFFICE
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.
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.
Section 5. That a certificate of election shall be issued to the candidate in the same
manner as provided for a candidate elected at the election.
Section 6. That this ordinance shall become effective on April 9, 2001.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9th day of April, 2001.
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Michael J. Pfieste a
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