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multiple relatives
Currently we are have a mayoral race recounted because of a time. I want to know if a person wins and their wife is the secretatry, her cousin is the assistant treasurer, the assistant treaser brother is the code enforcer plus there are blood relatives on council. Is there something that prohibits multiple relatives in the same family. This makes it very hard for the rest of the officials and employees. I think the mayor or secretary has to make a choice of which will be in office.
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Re: multiple relatives
The answer to your question depends on whether the community is a charter city (or village) or a statutory city (or village). I know of no statutory limitation on candidates for municipal office merely because one or more of the candidate's relatives work for the municipality.
If the municipality has its own charter, that charter might impose such a restriction.
Once elected, there may be requirements that the elected official cannot supervise the work of a relative employee, but we would need much more information than what you have given in this brief inquiry to sort that out.
That is the kind of issue that the city attorney or law director would address.
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