§ 8. Qualifications of mayor and councilmen.

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No person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or councilman unless at the time of his election he is legally entitled to vote in the city election for member of the common council; and he was for the preceding year assessed with taxes upon real or personal property within the said city of the assessed aggregate value of at least three hundred dollars ($300.00) and shall actually have paid the taxes so assessed; provided, that when the city shall have been laid off into wards, no person shall be elected a councilman from any ward unless he shall have been, for at least sixty (60) days next preceding the election a bona fide resident of the ward for which he is elected, and the removal of a councilman from the ward from which he is elected shall vacate his office.

(Election of 8-3-54)

                    
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