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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1555 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1982/05/03MAY' 3, 1'982 8c ORDINANCE NO. 1555 AN ORDINANCE RELATED TO ELECTIONS, AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE: AMENDING SECTION 4-202.101 (Absentee Ballot Precinct) AND ADDING SECTION 4-202.102 (Absentee BALLOT COUNTING BOARD THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 4-202.101 of the St, Louis Park Ordinance Code is hereby amended to read as attached: Sec. 2. Section 4-202.102 of the St. Louis Park Ordinance Code is hereby added to read as attached': Section 4-202.101. Absentee Ballot Precinct. Pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, the absentee ballot precinct established by Ordinance No. 1409 on June 5, 1978, shall encompass the entire city for the purpose of receiving, validating and tabu- lating all absentee ballots for any primary or general election, or special referendum held within the city. The precinct shall be under the direct charge and supervision of the City Clerk, and the place for receiving, tabulating and counting of absentee ballots shall be at the City Hall official counting center. Section 4-202.102. Counting Board. An absentee ballot counting board is hereby established for the purpose of counting all absentee ballots cast. The -judges of the board shall take possession of all return envelopes; shall open each after the last regular mail delivery of the day, and after examination, shall receive or reject them. The votes shall be counted at the absentee ballot precinct by the board, and the board shall report the vote totals tabulated for each precinct and certify same to the City Clerk who shall add the results thereof to the totals recorded by the electronic voting system. Section 4-203. Hiring of Judges of Election. The Council shall, at least ten days before each municipal election, appoint three qualified voters of each voting precinct to be judges of election therein, or as many more or less as niay be determined by the Council. No person signing or circulating a petition of nomination of a candidate for election to office shall be eligible to serve as judge of such election and the City Clerk shall certify to the Council the names of persons signing or circulating such nominating petitions prior to action by the Council appointing said judges. May, 1982 58.1 1 1 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after its publication. Adopted by the City Council May 3, 1982. Attest: aerkeg (i."471} Reviewed for administration: Apprpved as m and legality: ( 61-1-A-1-4-6,1--- ity Attorney SUN NEWSPAPERS AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ST. LOUIS PARK SUN (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO 1555 AN ORDINANCE RELATED TO ELECTIONS, AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE AMENDING SECTION 4-202 101 (ABSENTEE BALLOT -PRECINCT) AND ADDING SECTION 4-202 102 (ABSENTEE BALLOT COUNTING BOARD)` Summary This ordinance estab- lishes a counting board for the purpose of tabulating absentee ballots at the City Hall absentee ballot ptecinct'during an election Effective Trate• L. This , ordinance shall take effect 15 days after its publication p Adopted by the City Council May 3, 1982 'T.,, ,(s) PHYLLIS MCQUAID Mayor (A copy of the full text of this or- dinance is available for inspection with the city clerk) (May 12, 1982) -SLP 924 Excelsior Avenue West - Hopkins, Minnnesota State of Minnesota County of Hennepin D K MORTENSON, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and general manager of the newspaper know as The St Louis Park Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at (east once every week (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisement (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipalities which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- class matter in its local post -office (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of St Louis Park, Golden Valley School District No 275 and Robbinsdale School District No 281 in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Hopkins in said county, established and open during its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper or persons to its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regula • business hours and at which said newspaper is printed (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society (7) Said newspaper is made available at single or subscription prices to any person, corporation, partnership or other unincorporated association requesting the newspaper and making the applicable payment (8) Said newspaper has complied with all foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below (9) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter and 'affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No. 1555 hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, forCnesuccessive weeks, that it was first so published on Wed the 12 day of May 19 82 and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including the day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to wit abcdefghil kl mnopgrstuvwxyz Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12 // /1: // iAk`_ MERIDEL M. HEDBLOM NOTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOTA HENNEPIN COUNTY My commission expires July 2, 1986 day of May 19 82