§ 9.05. Determination of Election Results.

(a)

Elections and Declaring Results. The returns of every municipal election shall be delivered forthwith by the election judges to the city secretary. The election judges shall count and deliver the returns to the city secretary without adjournment or delay. The council shall canvass the returns, certify the qualification of the candidates and declare the official results of the election not later than the first regular meeting following the delivery of such returns to the city secretary. The qualified person receiving a majority of the qualified votes polled at this election shall thereupon be declared by the council to have been elected. In the event no candidate receives a majority of the qualified votes polled at such regular election for the office for which he or she is a candidate, the council shall immediately order a special election to be held not less than twenty (20) days nor more than thirty (30) days after the results of the regular election shall have been declared. At such special election the names of two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast at the regular election for the office for which they are candidates shall be submitted for the election, and the candidate receiving the majority of votes at such special election for the position for which he or she was a candidate shall be declared duly elected.

(b)

Notification and Qualification of City Officers. It shall be the duty of the city secretary to promptly notify all persons elected or appointed to office of their election or appointment. Any officer elected or appointed must qualify by taking and subscribing his oath of office within thirty (30) days; otherwise, the office shall be vacant.

(c)

Tie vote. All ties in either election shall be decided by a runoff election as above required.