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2 PAGE: 2 completed one full term and are serving in your second full term, you may not run for reelection in Background In November 2002, then Supervisor Gavin Newsom won election to serve on the Board of Supervisors representing District Two. The term for which he was elected began on January 8, 2003, and was scheduled to end on January 8, In December 2003, Supervisor Newsom won the City s run-off election for Mayor. On January 8, 2004, Supervisor Newsom was sworn into office as Mayor, leaving his seat on the Board of Supervisors temporarily vacant. On January 26, 2004, Mayor Newsom appointed you to fill the vacant seat representing District Two. Under the Charter, the term for Board office runs with the seat and not with the person filling it. At the time of your appointment, just under three years remained in the term for that Board seat. Because of the length of the remaining term, the City Charter required you to stand for election to the seat at the next general election, in November You won that election and completed the remaining two years and one month of the term to which Mayor Newsom originally had been elected. The term ended on January 8, In November 2006, you won reelection to a new four-year term, which commenced on January 8, 2007, and will expire on January 8, Analysis The fundamental task of statutory and charter interpretation is to determine the intent of the legislative body in enacting the measure. See White v. Ultramar Inc., 21 Cal.4th 563, 572 (1999). To determine legislative intent, a court must first examine the language of the measure, giving its words their ordinary, everyday meaning. Halbert s Lumber, Inc. v. Lucky Stores, Inc., 6 Cal. App. 4th 1233, (1992). Under established rules of statutory construction, courts must harmonize the provisions of a statute or measure if possible, giving full effect to each. See Cacho v. Boudreau, 40 Cal.4th 341, 352 (2007). Accordingly, significance should be given to every word, phrase, sentence and part of an act in pursuance of the legislative purpose. DuBois v. Workers Comp. Appeals Bd., 5 Cal.4th 382, 388 (1993) (quoting Moyer v. Workmen s Comp. Appeals Bd., 10 Cal.3d 222, (1973)). Only if the language is ambiguous or uncertain may a court consider legislative history. Lucky Stores, 6 Cal. App. 4th at If the language of a ballot measure is ambiguous or uncertain, the court may consider ballot arguments and certain other materials presented to the voters. See Hodges v. Superior Court, 21 Cal.4th 109, (1999). First we turn to the pertinent language of the Charter. Charter section limits the terms of members of the Board of Supervisors as follows: No person elected or appointed as a Supervisor may serve as such for more than two successive four-year terms. Any person appointed to the office of Supervisor to complete in excess of two years of a four-year term shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to have served one full term. No person having served two successive four-year terms may serve as a Supervisor, either by election or appointment, until at least four years after the expiration of the second successive term in office. Any Supervisor who resigns with less than two full years remaining until the expiration of the term shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have served a full four-year term.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR ELECTED OFFICES IN TENNESSEE General Provisions Governing Qualifications for Office: The general qualifications of persons permitted to hold public office are set out in TCA 8-18-101.

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