Measure TL was placed on the ballot by the Beverly Hills City Council. This Measure, if approved by the voters, places a three term lifetime limit on the office of city council member and a three term lifetime limit on the office of city
treasurer. If a council member or the city treasurer is elected or appointed to fill a partial term of less than two years, then that term will not count toward the three term limit.
Measure TL states that it is the City Council's and voters' intent to apply term limits in a manner that counts the terms that council members and treasurers have already served. For example, an official who has served two terms before
Measure TL is adopted, would only be eligible to serve one additional term after the Measure is adopted. However, all persons who have served three or more terms of office and are elected to office at this election, or who are currently in
office at the time of this election, shall be permitted to complete their current terms.
Nevertheless, whether term limits can be applied to count past terms commencing before term limits were in effect has not been addressed by a court. Therefore, a court could rule that Measure TL will only count the future terms of city
council members and treasurers, served after the Measure takes effect.
Thus, because of the uncertainty of a court ruling, Measure TL also states that the voters would have enacted these term limits even if a court later rules that the term limits may not count past terms of council members or treasurers.
A "yes" vote on Measure TL favors the enactment of term limits. A "no" vote on Measure TL opposes the enactment of term limits.
