• Any person desiring to seek election for any elective office at any general city election may do so by filing a declaration of candidacy with the city clerk between eight a.m. on the seventeenth Tuesday prior to the election and five p.m. on the fourteenth Tuesday prior to the election. Any candidate for elective city office at any general city election must file within this time period. The city clerk shall, before the seventeenth Tuesday prior to any election at which offices are to be filed, notify the general public of the opening filing date, the office or offices to be filled, the proper place for filing, and the closing filing date of the election. Such notification shall be accomplished by a legal notice published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the city. The city clerk shall keep a permanent record of the names of the candidates, the office for which they seek election and the dates of the filings; and their names shall appear on the ballots in said order.
• The declaration of candidacy shall contain the full name of the candidate, his address and age, the office for which he proposes to be a candidate, the date of the filing, and if nominated and elected to such office, that the candidate will qualify.
• Every candidate, at the time a declaration of candidacy if filed, will be required to pay a filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the City Clerk.
• All candidates are required to submit an Affidavit of Tax Payments to the Department of Revenue declaring the following:  I hereby declare under penalties of perjury that I am not currently aware of any delinquency in the filing or payment of any state income taxes, personal property taxes, municipal taxes, real property taxes on the place of residence, as stated on the declaration of candidacy, or that I am a past or present corporate officer of any fee office that owes any taxes to the state, other than those taxes which may be in dispute. I declare under penalties of perjury that I am not aware of any information that would prohibit me from fulfilling any bonding requirements for the office for which I am filing.

Mayor 

(Chapter 2.12 – Mayor of the Perryville Municipal Code)

• 25 years of age
• Citizen of the United States
• Resident of the City at the time of election and for at least one (1) year preceding election
• Qualified registered voter – must present registration card
• No person shall be an alderman who shall at the time of his election be in arrears for any unpaid city taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office.
• Has not been found guilty or pled guilty to a felony or misdemeanor under U.S. law, a felony under Missouri law, or an offense in another state that would be considered a felony in the State of Missouri
• No person shall be mayor who has not filed a candidate’s affidavit of tax payments and bonding requirements with the Missouri Department of Revenue (as noted above)

Alderman

(Chapter 2.04 – Board of Aldermen of the Perryville Municipal Code)

• 21 years of age
• Citizen of the United States
• Resident of the City for one (1) year preceding election
• Resident of the Ward from which he is elected
• Qualified registered voter - must show registration card
• No person shall be an alderman who shall at the time of his election be in arrears for any unpaid city taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office.
• Has not been found guilty or pled guilty to a felony or misdemeanor under U.S. law, a felony under Missouri law, or an offense in another state that would be considered a felony in the State of Missouri
• No person shall be alderman who has not filed a candidate’s affidavit of tax payments and bonding requirements with the Missouri Department of Revenue (as noted above)

City Marshal

(Chapter 2.40 – Chief of Police of the Perryville Municipal Code)

• 21 years of age
• Citizen of the United States
• Resident of the City at the time of election and for at least one (1) year preceding election
• Qualified registered voter – must present registration card
• No person shall be the chief of police who shall, at the time of his election, be in arrears for any unpaid city taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office.
• Has not been found guilty or pled guilty to a felony or misdemeanor under U.S. law, a felony under Missouri law, or an offense in another state that would be considered a felony in the State of Missouri
• No person shall be chief of police who has not filed a candidate’s affidavit of tax payments and bonding requirements with the Missouri Department of Revenue (as noted above)  
• Training for the chief of police shall be as set forth in Section 79.055, RSMo, and any amendments thereto.
• The eligibility of a 'first responder' (as defined in Section 192.800, RSMo) who is an employee of the city to be a candidate for chief of police shall be governed by Section 67.145, RSMo, other provisions of this code notwithstanding.

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