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O-66-37 MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMWDING ORDINANCE #1.5, AND RELATING FURTHER TO ELECTIONS AND TO THE REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS. BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGES Section 1. That Section 1 of Village Ordinance No. 15, adopted May 9, 19550 is hereby emended to read as follows: "Section 1. (a) Electors and real property owners having the qualifications prescribed from time to time by the Special Acts of the Legislature constituting the Charter or Amended Charter of the Village shall be entitled to register and vote in the various elections as provided by such Statutes, but no poll tau or registration fee shall be required. The Village Manager shall keep a registration book or books, arranged to show the name, residence, age, land owned in the Village and its assessed valuation, and the signature of such registrant residing in the Village, and any other information required by law or deemed convenient; and containing a general oath or affirmation of the registrant's qualifications as an elector, which oath or affirmation may be printed-or typed at the top of each page or double page of such book. S$ch oath or affirmation shall be taken by each registrant so entitled, ,and shall be subscribed by his or her signature. (b) Either the same book or a separate book shall be kept for registration of other property owners then resident electors, who shall be entitled to vote in elections Involving the incurring of general obligation Village debts, or other elections in which by law other then electors or resident property owners may vote. The book or the pages for registration of Bach other property owners shall show the information required by law or deemed convenient, including the name, office address (in the column for residence), real property owned In fee simple in the Village, and the last assessed valuation thereof, of each such registrant, and the signature of the person or agent registering, and shall contain at the top of each page or double page a shoat form of oath or affirmation that each undersigned registrant is entitled to vote. Corporations, partnerships, common law trusts or similar organizations entitled to vote in certain elections by reason of property ownership only as is or may be prescribed by law, may register by any authorized agent, who shall by an oath or affirmation state that he is authorized to register and vote for the registrant. Such registrants, without an office in the Village, and any non-resident property owner or absent resident elector entitled by law to register and vote, may register by mail within the time for other electors to register, by executing or causing to be executed and sending to the Village Mager an oath or affirmation, in substantially the same form as printed in the registration book, and containing similar data as above provided to show the particular registrant's qualifications. Such electors or property owners may also vote by mail and the Village Manager shall furnish the form for registering by mail and the ballot to vote by mail, if duly and in good time applied for, but no miscarriage in the mails, or other accident or occurrence, without fraud by the,Village Manager, or the inspectors or clerk of election, shall invalidate any election, notwithstanding some or any number of non-resident or other property owners entitled to vote shall not have succeeded in registering or voting by mail. The oaths of each class of registrants in the registration book, although their signatures (and the information stated) may be in columnar form, shall operate and be held to be the same .as though such respective oaths or affirmations were made and subscribed separately by each registrant. The Village Manager as clerk, or the council, at any time, and any election board, before or on the day of election, may require satisfactory proof of quali- fications of any person or alleged owner requesting to register or to vote, as the case may be, and after such notice as may be reasonable under the circumstances and after hearing, if demanded, they may declare any person or alleged owner unqualified to register t or to vote and may strike such name from the registration book, provided the council may overrule or reverse action by the clerk alone, and it shall be the duty of the council to consider any charge of disqualification upon recommendation by the clerk or by any two eouncilmens and the council biennially, not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before the regular election, shall verify the qualifications of those registered and shall strike from the registration book the names of all registrants known or believed to be unable or disqualified to vote" SECTION 2. - That said Village Ordinance #15, adopted May 9,18331, is hereby further amended by adding an additional Section after Section 3 thereof, numbered and reading as follows: "Seetion 3-A. In the discretion of the council, or in the discretion of the Village Manager, unless otherwise ordered by the Council, distinct and separate ballots of different size or color from the ballots for resident electors to cast their individual freeholder votes may be provided for casting of votes by assessed valuations of property owned by them and by non-resident and corporate or other electors who may be entitled by reason of property ownership only to vote in certain elections, and a separate ballot bog may be provided and required for the casting of all such property ownership ballots. Such votes may be counted, tallied and canvassed separately and then may be canvassed and certified together with the votes of resident electors voting as individual freeholders, but the questions submitted and voted upon shall be stated in substantially the same language upon all ballots and classes or forms of ballots, excepting that it shall. not be necessary for the ballots furnished for voting upon the basis of assessed valuations of real property to contain the names of candidates, or a statement of any questions upon which only resident electors, as individual freeholders, shall be entitled by. law to vote; bat such questions may be submitted upon all ballots, if desired by the council for additional and advisory results." -3- #""'��` 6� a i� = �'r`p""°SRT' �� w+. .. - u -:�� _ �.,. q r'^x }• ax,�r, ... r. 0. x .. F .7e5yy 4 r t rg] x ,+ ► E. 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