Events Causing Vacancy in the Municipal Offices of Mayor

and Vice Mayor. The municipal offices of Mayor and Vice Mayor become vacant on the happening of any of the following events:

(a)death of the incumbent;

(b)declaration of mental incompetence by a final judgment or final order of a court of competent jurisdiction;

(c)resignation from office;

(d)refusal or failure to assume office;

(e)the decision of a competent tribunal declaring void his or her election;

(f)conviction of a felony, or of a crime involving moral turpitude;

(g)his or her change of residence from the municipality in which he or she was elected;

(h)when an incumbent is incapacitated because of illness and unable to continue for the remainder of the term to which he or she was elected; or

(i)when an incumbent has sought and won election to another office and assumed the new office, constituting voluntary relinquishment of the original office. The occurrence of any event under

(a)through (i), with respect to a person or persons elected to office, after the election but before the term of office is to commence, constitutes a vacancy on the date the term commences, unless the person or persons so elected is the incumbent, in which case, the vacancy occurs on the date of such event.