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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 7/12/2007 Revision m – Chapter 5 Clear Text compared to Revision k Page 2 of 5 CHAPTER 12 45 MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS 46 47 Section 12.01. Official Publication. The Council shall annually designate a legal newspaper of general 48 circulation in the City as its primary official newspaper, as well as an optional secondary newspaper, in 49 which shall be published ordinances, other matters required by law or this Charter to be so published, and 50 any other matters the Council may deem is in the public interest to have published in this manner. 51 52 CHAPTER 5 53 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 54 55 Section 5.01. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, have the right, in 56 accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be 57 referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with 58 administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove 59 elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of 60 the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per 61 Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who 62 were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and time lines are 63 attached as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases, the Charter text shall take priority over the 64 appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. 65 66 Section 5.02. Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a 67 committee of five (5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses 68 must appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition consists of one or more 69 pages gathered together as a single document. Each separately circulated page shall contain at its head, 70 or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to 71 initiative, referendum and recall. The Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the 72 Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition 73 sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent 74 Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the 75 petition must include a certificate signed and dated by the circulator. The certificate shall affirm that 76 each signature was made in the circulator’s presence and that the circulator believes the page to contain 77 the genuine signatures of the voters whose names they purport to be and that each signer was presented 78 with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their 79 name and give their street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk-80 Administrator for review. Any voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by 81 filing a statement in writing with the Clerk-Administrator before the Clerk-Administrator advises the 82 Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the petition. or, if such completed petition is 83 deemed insufficient pursuant to this Charter, during any time period that additional signature papers are 84 being circulated by the Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by the Clerk-Administrator pursuant to 85 Section 5.04. Consistent with the provisions of this Charter and the applicable state laws and rules, the 86 Council may prescribe by ordinance or resolution, the definition of a frivolous petition. 87 88 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet 89 the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least the following: 90 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures numbering at least fifteen (15) percent of 91 the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 92 • Petitions for Recall require signatures numbering at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots 93