The City Legislature is the municipality's governing body, responsible for voting on ordinances and policies, and often is in charge of hiring a city manager.
Candidate must be a qualified elector and resident of the town who has resided in the town for a period of at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the election, and is otherwise eligible to hold municipal office pursuant to law. If the trustee should move from or become, during the term of their office, a nonresident of the town, they shall be deemed to have vacated office, upon the adoption by the board of trustees of a resolution declaring such vacancy to exist.