O-275-57 ORDINANCE NO. 275
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 169,
BEING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 12Z, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE
RELATING TO ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION
OF VOTERS AND TO ABSENTEE VOTING.
BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
Section 1. That Section No. 5 of Ordinance No. 12Z as
amended by Ordinance No. 169, be and the same is hereby further
amended to read as follows:
''At least thrity days before an election the
Council shall appoint not less than four or more than ten
discreet persons as election judges, each of whom shall
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be qualified voter and not a candidate, nor pecuniarily
interested in any question to be submitted at the election,
and they, with the Village Clerk, shall be the election
board and shall conduct the election, and before leaving
the polling place shall publicly canvass and certify in
writing the results thereof by duplicate certificates over
their signatures, and before entering on their duties they
shall make oath that they will honestly and fairly conduct,
canvass and certify the results of the election, provided
that one member of the board at a time may absent himself
not exceeding forty-five minutes at meal-times. In the
event of inability or refusal of any of the persons so appointed
as election judges to act, and if another meeting of the Council
shall not intervene between the existence of such inability and
the holding of the election, the Mayor is authorized and
directed to fill the vacancy so existing by appointment from
among the qualified electors of the Village. The judges
shall be paid commensurate with that paid by Dade County.
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Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon;its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of March, 1957.
Mayor
ATTEST:
Village Clerk
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