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 at least twenty-one (21) years of age, a citizen of the United States and of the State of Delaware, a bona fide resident of The Town of Georgetown and a bona fide resident of the Fourth Ward. A person is a ‘bona fide resident’ of the town when he/she physically resides within the corporate limits of the town and continues to make that residence his/her fixed and permanent home.