The office of any elected City official shall be forfeited if the official ceases to have the qualifications prescribed for such office by this Charter or state law, or has been declared mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction. A Council Member shall forfeit the office for failure to attend 3 consecutive regular meetings of the Council without being excused by the Council. If a ward is redistricted and as a result thereof the residence of that ward’s Council Member falls outside the redistricted ward boundaries, the representative ward Council Member shall not forfeit the office.

Ward Council Members who move outside the ward in which they were elected with more than 12 months remaining in the term shall forfeit the office. [Amended April 18, 2008 (Ord. 2008-04-033) and November 3, 1981]