The election of city officials shall be conducted in all respects as provided by the laws of Kansas governing the holding of city elections, except as otherwise provided by charter ordinance.

(K.S.A. 25-2101 et seq.; Code 1995)

At all city elections the polls shall be open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m., unless different hours are set and publicly announced by the county election officer.

(K.S.A. 25-2111, 26-206; Code 1995)

(a)   Those governing body positions with terms expiring in April 2017, shall expire on the second Monday in January of 2018, when the city officials elected in the November 2017 general election take office. Those governing body positions with terms expiring in April 2019, shall expire on the second Monday in January of 2020, when the city officials elected in the November 2019 general election take office.

(b)   General elections shall take place on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November 2017. Succeeding elections will be held every two years for all such governing body positions whose terms have expired. A mayor and two council members shall be elected at one election, and the remaining three council members shall be elected at the succeeding election. The mayor and all council members shall have four-year terms.

(c)   All elections for the City of Montezuma, Kansas shall be nonpartisan.

(C.O. No. 200, Sec. 2; C.O. No. 11; Ord. 424)

The terms of such officers shall begin as soon as they qualify by subscribing to the proper oaths. If any person elected to the office of mayor or councilman does not qualify by subscribing to the proper oaths before or at the first regular meeting following the election, he or she shall be determined to have refused to accept the office and a vacancy shall exist. Thereupon the mayor shall with the consent of the majority of the remaining councilmen, appoint a suitable elector of the city to fill the vacancy for the term to which the refusing candidate was elected.

(C.O. No. 200, Sec. 3)

Regardless of the number of candidates who have filed for election for any city office, there shall be no necessity of a primary election, and every person who has filed for any city office shall be listed on the ballot and shall be voted on by the voters at the general election of city officers, to be held on the first Tuesday in April. The person from among the candidates who receives the largest number of votes at such general elections shall be declared the winner of said election.

(C.O. No.6, Sec. 2)

Any person desiring to become a candidate for city office elected at large shall file with the county election officer, before the filing deadline, established in K.S.A. 25-205, and amendments thereto, a declaration of candidacy on a form furnished by the county election officer as specified by the secretary of state. The nomination petition must be signed by three percent of the qualified electors of the City of Montezuma.

(C.O. No.6, Sec. 2; C.O. No. 11)