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• <br />• <br />• <br />2186 LAWS OF FLORIDA <br />Section 9. The Mayor and the members of the City Council shall <br />be elected by the qualified voters of said City. The Clerk, Tax Col- <br />lector, Tax Assessor, Treasurer, Marshal, Registration Officer, and <br />any other officers hereafter created, when the City Council shall <br />not otherwise provide, shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to <br />confirmation by the City Council. <br />Section 10. The City Council may provide by ordinance for the <br />holding by one or more persons of the offices of Tax Assessor, Tax <br />Collector, Clerk, Treasurer and Registration Officer. <br />Section 11. Any person, male or female, who has reached the <br />ago of twenty-one years and is a citizen of the State of Florida and <br />who has resided in the County six months and in the City of Vero <br />Beach for thirty days and who is registered as a voter on the City <br />Registration Book, shall be qualified to hold any office in said City, <br />and to vote in all City Elections, except bond elections, when the <br />qualifications shall be hereinafter provided. The payment of poll <br />tax shall not be required as a qualification for voting at elections <br />in said City. <br />Section 12. No person shall be eligible to hold office in said City <br />unless he or she be a qualified voter in said City. <br />Section 13. The regular annual election for the elective officers <br />of tho City of Vero Beach shall be held on the second Tuesday in <br />December of each year, and the present officers of the City of Vero <br />Beach, whether elected or appointed, shall retain the same offices <br />under the City •hereby created for the term for which they were <br />elected or appointed and until their successors are elected or ap- <br />pointed and qualified. Provided, however, that the City Council <br />shall have the power by ordinance to lay off the City of Vero <br />Beach into wards not to exceed five in number and to provide for <br />the election of a Councilman from each ward to be elected either by <br />the qualified electors of the City at large or by the qualified electors <br />in each ward, as the City Council may determine. <br />At the regular annual election to be held in the City of Vero <br />Beach on the second Tuesday in December, 1929, there shall be <br />elected three members of the City Council for the term of two years; <br />at the next City election held on the second Tuesday in December, <br />1930, two members of the City Council shall be elected for the term <br />of two years; and thereafter members of the City Council shall be <br />elected for tho term of two years each; so that two members are <br />elected at one annual election, and three members are elected at the <br />next annual election, but each for the term of two years and until <br />their successors are elected and qualified, <br />103 <br />