Section 9
SEC. 9. (a) General municipal elections (except the first, for which special provision is hereinafter made, in Chapter VIII) shall be held on the first Tuesday in December of each Year, and the officers elected thereat shall enter-upon their duties on the first Monday of January following. In order to provide properly for municipal elections, the president, during the first five days of the month next preceding the month in which any general election is to be held, shall prepare and cause to be posted a proclamation specifying the place where and the hours during which the election shall be held, and notifying all persons qualified as electors to appear before the municipal secretary during the first fifteen days of the month in which the proclamation is dated, for the purpose of taking the elector's oath. It shall be the duty of the secretary, and he is empowered, to administer the oaths, but without fee. (b) One copy of the proclamation shall be posted at the main entrance of the municipal building and one in a, public and conspicuous place in each barrio of the town. Between the fifteenth and twentieth days of the month, the president shall prepare from the oaths thus taken a list of the qualified electors, alphabetically arranged according to surnames, and shall post it at the main entrance of the municipal building. He shall further prepare and cause to be posted in a public and conspicuous place in each barrio an alphabetical list of the qualified electors residing within its limits. Each list shall be accompanied by a notice specifying a term of five days prior to the election during which any qualified elector may demand his proper enrollment as such, or the exclusion from the list of qualified electors of the name of any person not possessing the right to vote. Such demands shall be made to the president, who shall promptly refer them for settlement to a board consisting of the vice-president, the municipal treasurer and himself. Where the value of land offered as a qualification for voting is disputed, its value as assessed for taxation shall conclusively determine the same. If there is no assessment the value shall be determined by the board. The questions raised before said board shall be determined before the date of the pending election, and the determinations shall be immediately communicated in writing to the person whose qualifications as an elector are in question. (c) Special elections, duly called in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen, subsection (b), shall be held on the fourth Tuesday succeeding the call for the same. They shall be conducted in accordance with the rules provided for general elections in sections nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen.