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Proposed Text Amendment to Toledo Charter
City Council
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Providing for the submission to the electors of the City of Toledo at a special election on November 3, 2026, an amendment Section 13 of the Charter of the City of Toledo related to the nominating petitions; directing the Clerk to notify the appropriate election authorities of the same; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
This proposed amendment to Section 13 of the Charter of the City of Toledo would require that nominating forms be consistent with those used by state election officials and reduce the number of required signatures for a candidate to be placed on the ballot. If passed by Council the proposed amendment would be placed before the electorate.
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NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the proposed amendment to Section 13 of the Charter of the City of Toledo, as set forth below, be submitted to the electors of the City of Toledo at a special election to be held on November 3, 2026.
SECTION 2. That City of Toledo Charter ?13 states as follows:
Section 13. Nominating petitions.
The name of any elector of the City shall be placed upon the primary election ballot for nomination as a candidate for Mayor when there shall have been filed with the election authorities a petition signed by not less than seven hundred fifty (750) nor more than fifteen hundred (1500) electors of the City, and for City Council running at-large when there shall have been filed with the election authorities a petition signed by not less than two hundred fifty (250) nor more than five hundred (500) electors of the City, and for City Council running in a district when there shall have been filed with the election authorities a petition signed by not less than fifty (50) nor more than one hundred (100) electors, the form of said petitions to be substantially as follows:
We, the undersigned, hereby present ...
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