§ 2.201. Election for mayor and council.

On Thursday after the first Monday in December of each even numbered year, except as set out in section 2.101, there shall be held in the City of Sylvania at some public place designated by the mayor and councilmen, a general election to fill vacancies in the offices of mayor and councilmen, whose terms of office shall be for four years concurrent with the calendar year. Any qualified person seeking election as mayor or councilman in such election shall file notice of his intention to be a candidate with the clerk of council at least two weeks prior to such election, before noon. Should there for any cause fail to be an election at the time specified, the mayor and council, shall order an election to be held and shall post a notice of the time of such election in the City of Sylvania at the public place designated by the mayor and councilmen for at least ten days previous thereto. At all such elections the polls shall not be opened earlier than 7:00 a.m., and shall close at 7:00 p.m. All elections shall be held by a justice of the peace, or ordinary of Screven County, assisted by two or more freeholders, all of whom shall be citizens of said city and own real estate therein, and each of said managers before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe before some officer qualified to administer an oath, or before each other, the following oath: "We, and each of us, do swear that we will faithfully and impartially conduct this election and prevent illegal voting to the best of our skill and power, so help us God." Such election shall be conducted under the rules and regulations governing elections for members of the General Assembly, except that only two lists of voters and two tally sheets shall be kept.

(1963 Ga. Laws, page 2030, § 48)

Code reference— Elections, § 2-51.