Election

districts to be established.

First special election, time and notice of.

Such eleotion, how conducted.

What officer's

to be elected

terms.

more election districts, and it shall, be the duty of the proper municipal and election officers of such incorporated town, or of the county wherein such incorporated town is situate, to designate therein one or more polling places and appoint therefor proper election officers, so that the legal voters residing in the annexed territory may participate in all subsequent elections to be held in the said incorporated town for the election of municipal officers.

2376. SEC. 2. Immediately after the annexation or consolidation of such territory with such incorporated town and the creation of such new ward, the common council or other governing body of such incorporated town shall, by resolution, fix a time for the holding of a special election in the ward newly created, and thereupon the clerk of such incorporated town shall give ten days' notice of such special election in the ward newly created, in the manner required by law for the advertisement and notice of elections in such incorporated town; and he shall publish with such notice a description of the boundaray lines of the ward of such incorporated town newly created.

237c. SEC. 3. The said election shall be conducted under the pains and penalties and according to the provisions (so far as the same are applicable thereto) of an act entitled "An act to regulate elections (Revision of 1898)," approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and the supplements thereto and acts amendatory thereof; provided, that no registration of voters shall be required for such election.

237d. SEC. 4. On the day appointed for such election and for what there shall be elected in said ward newly created and so annexed or consolidated with such incorporated town, as many members of the common council or other governing body of such incorporated town, and as many members of the board of education of such incorporated town, and also one chosen freeholder and such other

officers as the law provides to represent the wards of such incorporated town; the members of the common council or other governing body and of the board of education shall be elected to serve, one of each until his successor shall be chosen at the next annual charter election of such incorporated town, another of each until his successor shall be chosen at the second annual charter election of such incorporated town to be held thereafter, and the third of each (if there be a third member of each), until his successor shall be chosen at the third annual charter election of such incorporated town to be held thereafter; and the time for which each of the members of the common council or other governing body and of the board of education of such incorporated town is to be elected to serve, shall be written or printed under his name upon the ballot to be cast; and any ballot which shall not designate such term of service shall be rejected as to such officer or officers.

offices vacated.

237e. SEC. 5. Upon the election of such officers, the Township offices held by the members of the heretofore existing board of township committee or other governing body of the municipality, from which the territory so annexed or consolidated with such incorporated town was taken, and of the board of education and former election board of such municipality, residing within the territory so annexed or consolidated, shall and the same are hereby declared to be forthwith vacated.

Municipal Elections in Cities.

An Act relative to the time of election and appointment and terms of office of officers elected or appointed in cities in this state. Approved February 28, 1901. P. L. 1901, p. 41.

238. SEC. 1. Hereafter, in all cities in this state, all officers required to be elected therein at any municipal

Municipal

election in

cities to be

held in

November.

Terms of

certain

elective

officers

extended.

Terms of appointive officers extended.

Proviso.

or charter election shall be voted for and elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in each year, and with the same registration and upon the same official ballots required by law for the election of state and county officers, and not otherwise; and the said ballots voted as aforesaid for such officers shall be canvassed, and the result of any such election therefor shall be determined as now provided by law in the case of county officers, and certified to the clerk of such city; it being the intention hereby to consolidate the municipal or charter election in cities with the general or state election. (a) •

239. SEC. 2. The term of office of every such elective officer (except justices of the peace) heretofore elected in any city, and holding office at the passage of this act, shall be and hereby is extended from the time when his term would otherwise expire until twelve o'clock noon of the first day of January next succeeding the date at which his term of office would otherwise expire; provided, that this section shall not apply to any officer whose term of office now expires by law on the first day of January in any year.

240. SEC. 3. Every officer heretofore appointed by the mayor in any city, or appointed or chosen by the common council or other governing body of any city, and holding office therein at the passage of this act, shall continue in office, and his term of office shall be and hereby is extended from the time when his term would otherwise expire until twelve o'clock noon of the first day of January next succeeding the date at which his term of office would otherwise expire; provided, that this section shall not apply to any officer whose term of office now expires by law on the first day of January in any year.

(a) This act is not unconstitutional. Boorum v. Connelly, 37 Vr. 197.

When terms

shall begin.

241. SEC. 4. The terms of office of all officers (ex- of city officers cept justices of the peace) hereafter elected in any city shall commence at twelve o'clock noon on the first day of January next succeeding their election, and continue for the respective terms of years now fixed by law; and the terms of office of all officers hereafter appointed by the mayor of any city, or appointed or chosen by the common council or other governing body of any city, except to fill vacancies, shall commence on the first day of January of the year in which they are appointed, and continue for the respective terms of years now fixed by law, when said term is for a definite period; provided, however, that no appointment of any officer shall be made by the mayor of any city for a term of office to commence after the expiration of the term of said mayor, or by the common council or other governing body of any city for a term of office to commence after the expiration of the term of any member of said common council or other governing body.

when and how filled.

242. SEC. 5. All vacancies in offices in any city of Vacancies, this state arising from or created by any other cause than expiration of term of office, shall be filled for the unexpired term only; vacancies in elective offices shall, hereafter be filled at the next general or state election, and not otherwise.

officers.

243. SEC. 6. The powers, duties and authority of Powers of every officer whose term of office is extended by this act, are hereby continued in full force and effect for and during the period of such extension.

244. SEC. 7. Every officer now or hereafter holding any office covered by the provisions of this act, except justices of the peace, shall continue to hold such office, and to exercise the duties thereof, notwithstanding the time limited for its continuance shall have expired, until his successor has been chosen and qualified, unless sooner removed in the manner provided by law.

continue in

Officers to office.

Y

Repealer.

Terms of

certain elective officers abridged.

Certain

elections ratified.

Repealer.

245. SEC. 8. All acts and parts of acts, special or general, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act relative to the time of election and appointment and terms of office of officers elected or appointed in cities of this state," approved February twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and one. Approved April 3, 1902. P. L. 1902, p. 458.

246. SEC. I. The term of office of every elective officer (except justices of the peace) holding office in any city at the passage of the act to which this is a supplement, which term, prior to the passage of said act, would regularly expire after the first and on or before the seventh day of January in any year, shall be and hereby is limited and abridged so as to expire at twelve o'clock noon on the first day of January of the year in which his term of office would otherwise expire.

247. SEC. 2. The election of all persons voted for as elective officers of any city, and officially returned as elected after the passage of the act to which this is a supplement, and before the passage of this supplement, to succeed elective officers theretofore elected for terms expiring after the first and on or before the seventh day of January last (except justices of the peace), is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the terms of their predecessors terminated, and all persons so officially returned as elected shall be deemed legally elected and shall continue to hold office for the terms for which they were respectively elected, or intended to be elected as aforesaid, and with the same force and effect as if the terms of their predecessors had in fact expired on the first day of January last.

248. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.