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• CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Sec. 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. The people of Mounds View reserve to themselves the powers in accordance with the provisions of this Charter to initiate and adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the council to be referred to the electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively. Sec. 5.02. Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered voters of the city whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. Such petition shall be filed in the city • clerk's office prior to circulation. A petition may consist of one or more papers, but each separately circulated paper shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the material required by sections 5.05 or 5.07, respectively. Each signer shall sign his/her name and give his/her street address. Each separate page of the petition shall have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The person mak ng_the certificate shallbea resident of the city and registered to vote-. Sec. 5.03. Determination of Sufficiency. Within thirty days after the filing of the original material required by sections 5.05 or 5.07, as the case may be, the committee shall file the completed petition in the office of the city clerk. Within five days after the filing of the petition, the city clerk shall ascertain by examin- ation the number of electors whose signatures are appended thereto. This number shall • be at least ten percent for initiative and referendum, and at least twenty percent for recall of the total number of electors who cast their votes at the last regular city election. '