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CHAPTER 8 ELECTIONS

  • Sec. 8-1. State Law Governing City Elections
  • Sec. 8-2. Qualifications of City Officers
  • Sec. 8-3. Wards


    CHAPTER 8 ELECTIONS

    SECTION 8-1. STATE LAW GOVERNS CITY ELECTIONS.

    All city elections shall be held in conformity with the most recently compiled elections laws of the state.

    SECTION 8-2. QUALIFICATIONS OF CITY OFFICERS.

    All city offices are nonpartisan and city officers shall be electors qualified under Wyoming law and residents of the city.

    SECTION 8-3. WARDS. There are hereby created and established within the corporate limits three (3) wards, numbered, bounded and described as follows:

    (a) WARD I There is hereby created and established within the corporate limits, Ward I, bounded and described as all corporate territory north of and included within the following lines: (1) Commencing at a point of intersection of the east corporate limit boundary line and the easterly extension of the north line of Moose Street; (2) Thence westerly along the southerly corporate limit boundary line to the intersection of the north line of Moose Street and the centerline of Sage Avenue; (3) Thence northwesterly along the centerline of Sage Avenue to the intersection of the centerline of Sage Avenue and Emerald Street; (4) Thence southwesterly along the centerline of Emerald Street to the intersection of the centerlines of Emerald Street and Beech Avenue; (5) Thence northwesterly along the centerline of Beech Avenue to a point of intersection of the centerline of Beech Avenue and the easterly extension of the north line of Block 35 of the first addition; (6) Thence southwesterly along the north property line of Block 35 of the first addition and Block 1 of the Lincoln Heights Subdivision to the northwest corner of Block 1 of the Lincoln Heights Subdivision; (7) Thence southwesterly to corner #1 of Tract 53 of T21N, R116W of the 6th P.M.; (8) Thence N89 39'46"W to a point on the western corporation limit boundary line of the City of Kemmerer.

    (b) WARD II. There is hereby created and established within the corporate limits, Ward II, bounded and described as all corporate territory contained within the following lines: (1) Commencing at the point of intersection of the north line of Moose Street and the centerline of Sage Avenue, said point being on the corporate limit boundary line; (2) Thence northwesterly along the centerline of Sage Avenue to the intersection of the centerlines of Sage Avenue and Emerald Street; (3) Thence southwesterly along the centerline of Emerald Street to the intersection of the centerlines of Emerald Street and Beech Avenue; (4) Thence northwesterly along the centerline of Beech Avenue to the point of intersection of the centerline of Beech Avenue and the easterly extension of the north line of Block 35 of the first addition; (5) Thence southwesterly along the north property line of Block 35 of the first addition and Block 1 of the Lincoln Heights Subdivision to the northwest corner of Block 1 of the Lincoln Heights Subdivision; (6) Thence southwesterly to corner #1 of Tract 53 of T21N, R116W, of the 6th P.M.; (7) Thence southerly along the tract line between Tract 52 and Tract 53 to the point of intersection of the tract line and the centerline of Garnet Street; (8) Thence easterly along the centerline of Garnet Street to the intersection of the centerlines of Garnet and Sorensen Drive; (9) Thence in a southerly direction along the centerline of Sorensen Drive to the intersection of the southerly extension of the centerline of Sorensen Drive and the westerly extension of the south line of Antelope Street from the Fairview Addition; (10) Thence easterly along the westerly extension of the south line of Antelope Street from the Fairview Addition to the southwest corner of the Fairview Addition, said point also being on the corporate limit boundary line; (11) Thence easterly along the south line of Antelope Street and the corporate limit boundary line to the southeast corner of the Fairview Addition; (12) Thence northerly along the east line of the alley running north-south in Block 8 of the Fairview Addition, said line being the corporate limit boundary line, to a point on the south line of an alley running east-west in Block 8 of the Fairview Addition; (13) Thence easterly along the south line of the alley running east-west in Block 8 of the Fairview Addition, said line being the corporate limit boundary line, to the southeast corner of lot 1 of Block 1 of the Fairview Addition, said point being on the east line of the Fairview Addition; (14) Thence northerly along the east line of the Fairview Addition, said line being the corporate limit boundary line, to the northeast corner of the Fairview Addition, said point being located on the north line of Moose Street; (15) Thence easterly along the easterly extension of the north line of Moose Street, said extension being the corporate limit boundary line to the point of intersection of the corporate limit boundary line and the centerline of Sage Avenue, the point of beginning of this description.

    (c) WARD III. There is hereby created and established within the corporate limits, Ward III, bounded and described as all corporate territory south and east of and included within the following lines: (1) Commencing at a point on the westerly corporate boundary limit line, said point being the intersection of the westerly extension of the south boundary line of Tract 55, T21N, R116W, 6th P.M. and the west corporate boundary limit line; (2) Thence S89 39'46"E to corner #1 of Tract 53, T21N, R116W, 6th P.M.; (3) Thence southerly along the tract line between Tract 52 and Tract 53 to the point of intersection of the tract line of the centerline of Garnet Street; (4) Thence easterly along the centerline of Garnet Street to the point of intersection of the centerlines of Garnet Street and Sorensen Drive. (5) Thence southerly along the centerline of Sorensen Drive to the point of intersection of the southerly extension of the centerline of Sorensen Drive and the westerly extension of the south line of Antelope Street from the Fairview Addition; (6) Thence easterly along the extension of the south line of Antelope Street from the Fairview Addition to the Southwest corner of the Fairview Addition, said point being on the corporate limit boundary line; (7) Thence southerly along the corporate limit boundary line to the south corporate limit boundary line of the City of Kemmerer.