Ms. Kemm had just testified that city voters overwhelmingly still support the term limits law, citing a poll her group recently commissioned.

There is growing opposition to revising the term limits law through legislation, the most likely route for a change.

So with no essential difference from the term limits law, its proposal must be seen as self-serving.

Minnish left his seat in 1999 due to a term limits law.

So under the term limits law, some council members had to leave office after only six years, while others got up to eight years in office.

The case stems from the Council's decision to pass a law meant to adjust a quirk in the term limits law.

He added that he would not try to challenge the term limits law again.

The revision was made to adjust a quirk in the term limits law.

If passed, the measure would have been the first amendment to the term limits law since Proposition 140 in 1990.

As a result, there are half a dozen council members elected in 1997 who will serve only six years under the term limits law.