AN ACT FURTHER REGULATING THE FILLING OF VACANCIES IN THE OFFICE OF MAYOR OF THE CITY OF REVERE
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 147 of the acts of 2004 is hereby amended by striking out section 1 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 59A of chapter 43 of the General Laws, if a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor of the city of Revere by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, at any time during the first year, the first 6 months of the second year, the third year or the first 6 months of the fourth year of the mayor's term of office, the city clerk shall immediately order an election to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.
(b) A vacancy shall not be filled in the manner provided in subsection (a) if the vacancy occurs during the last 6 months of the term of office of mayor.
(c) If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor within 6 months of the city's regular municipal election in the second year of the mayor's term of office, the city clerk shall order an election to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term at the city's regular municipal election.
(d) The president of the city council shall perform the duties of mayor until a new mayor is elected and sworn to the faithful discharge of the mayor’s duties. The president of the city council shall be called "acting mayor" and shall possess the powers of mayor only in matters not admitting of delay.
(e) The mayor-elect chosen at an election held pursuant to this section shall take office immediately upon the certification of the results of the election and shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the mayor’s duties. Unless a councillor serving as acting mayor under this section formally resigns from the position of councillor, the councillor shall, upon the election and qualification of a successor mayor, resume their service as a councillor in the capacity to which they were elected and shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term of such position.
(f) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall not be a preliminary election to fill the vacancy in the office of mayor. Candidates seeking to fill the vacancy, whose nomination papers have been duly certified, shall be considered to have been nominated.
SECTION 2. Chapter 22 of the acts of 2011 is hereby repealed
Approved, January 8, 2025.