Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 27
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e City ARTICLE III.
ith the THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
bonds 1. All powers conferred on the city shall, unless otherwise provided
in this charter, be exercised by a Mayor and four Commissioners. who
ity of together shall be known and designated as the Board of Commissioners,
its or- all of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city at large,
showing and shall devote their entire time to the service of the city.
l to be The Mayor shall be ex-officio president of said Board of Connis-
sued. signers, and shall have and exercise all of the powers of a member
hereof, thereof.
at the 2. On the sixth Tuesday after this act shall take effect, and bien-
inter- nially thereafter on the first Tuesday of April, there shall he elected
i cor- at an election to be held in said City of Dallas, to be called as herein-
stocks after provided, a Mayor and four Commissioners, who together shall
e same compose said Board of Commissioners, and who shall serve for the
article, term of two years and until their successors shall be elected and shall
for the qualify. Candidates for Mayor and for places on said Board of Coni-
mounts inissioners shall be voted for separately, and candidates for Comnnis-
il sub- sioner shall be designated on the official ballot as candidates for Com-
missioner No. 1, or No. 2, or No. 3, or No. 4 (said numbers to be printed
segment after the designating title "Commissioner"), in accordance with the
required written requests which said candidate shall file with the City Secretary.
within Each candidate for Commissioner shall designate in the announcement
a true, of his candidacy, and in his request to have his name placed on the
lose of official ballot, the number of the place on the Board of Commissioners
h shall for which he desires to become a candidate, and such request to be placed
on the official ballot shall be filed in writing with the City Secretary
lnd the at least ten days before such election shall be held. The City Secre-
tary shall prepare an official ballot in accordance with such requests
interest and with the provisions hereof, and only such ballot shall be used at
interest said city election. The candidate at said election for Mayor or for a
place on said Board of Conunissioners who shall receive a majority of
and the all the votes cast for the office for which lie is a candidate shall be de-
clared elected to such office. In the event any candidate for either of
of such said offices shall fail to receive a majority of all votes cast for all
the candidates for such office at such election, the Mayor of said city
rned by shall, on the first lay following tie completion of the official count of
market the ballots cast at said first election, issue a call for a second election
to be held in said city on the second Tuesday following the issuance
uly au- of such call, at which said election the two candidates receiving the
id upon highest number of votes for any such office to which no one was elected
at said first election by receiving a majority of all votes east thereon,
a false shall be again voted for. The oficial ballot to be used at said second
1 there election shall be prepared by the City Secretary and the name of no
person shall appear thereon unless he was a candidate for the office
do as designated at said first election, and the two persons receiving at said
ter due first election the first and second highest number of votes cast for can-
the dis- didates for such office shall be entitled to have their names printed on
.ch cor- said official ballot, in the order of their standing in the computation
ion has of the votes ast at said first election, as candidates at said second
in said election for s(h office- provided. that in the event aty person who
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/33/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.