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REL:adg <br />83-005212 12/8/82 <br />EXHIBIT A <br />TEXT OF AMENDED CHARTER SECTIONS <br />Sec. 400. Number_, selection and terms of members. <br />The city council shall consist of seven (7) members <br />elected at the times and in the manner provided in this <br />charter, each of whom shall serve a term of four (4) years. <br />The term of each member shall begin following such election, <br />at the first regularly scheduled meeting of the city council <br />following certification of election results, and each shall <br />serve except as otherwise provided for in this charter, <br />until his successor is elected and qualified. Each office <br />of council member shall be a separate office and one of such <br />offices shall be assigned to each of the wards of the city. <br />Candidates for each office of council member shall be <br />nominated from such ward by the electors of such ward, but <br />all council members shall be elected by the vote of the <br />electors of the city at large. <br />Sec. 401.1 Order of filling offices. <br />The offices of council member from wards one, three, <br />five and seven shall be filled at the general municipal <br />election held in 1984, and the offices of council member <br />from wards two, four, and six shall be filled at the general <br />municipal election held on April 5, 1983, and in 1986. <br />Thereafter, the offices of council member from wards one, <br />three, five and seven and from wards two, four, and six <br />shall be filled alternately at the general municipal <br />elections held in the years in which the terms of such <br />offices respectively expire. <br />The candidate elected from each ward at each such <br />election shall be the candidate receiving the highest number <br />of votes cast for any candidate from said ward. <br />Sec. 420. Violation and penalty. <br />The city council may make the violation of its <br />ordinances a misdemeanor or .infraction which may be <br />prosecuted in the name of the People of the State of <br />California or may be redressed by civil action and may <br />prescribe punishment for such misdemeanor or infraction in <br />the same manner as provided in the penal code of the State <br />of California as the same now reads or as hereafter amended. <br />Page 1 of 11 <br />