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i2/01/93 08:33 FAX 612 424 5820 til:N RURAL ELECTRC 001, 002 111 CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.01 . General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View have the right, in accordance with this charter, to propose ordinances and to require ordinances to be submitted to a vote by processes known respectively as initiative and referendum. The people also have the right to recall elected public officials. Section 5.02. Petitions. An initiative or referendum shall be initiated by a petition signed by registered voters of the city equal in number to 20 percent of those who voted for mayor in the last preceding city general election. The committee may obtain a sample petition from the clerk administrator. Each petition shall be sponsored by a committee of five voters whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition may consist of one or more papers, but each paper circulated separately shall contain at its head the statement required by Section 5.05 or 5.07, as the case may be. Each signer shall sign and print his/her name and give his/her street address. Each separate page of the petition shall have appended to it a certificate, verified by notary public, that each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The person making the certificate shall be a resident of the city. Any person whose name • appears on a petition may withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed with the city clerk administrator before the clerk advises the council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5 .03. Determination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk Administrator. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the Clerk Administrator or designee shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council within ten working days. Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine the sufficiency of the petition by resolution. Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient Petition. If the council determines that the petition is insufficient or irregular, the city clerk shall deliver a copy of the petition together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee. The committee shall have 30 working days in which to file additional signature papers and to correct the petition in all other particulars. Within ten working days of receipt of the corrected petition, the Clerk Administrator shall report to the Council . If the Council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, the Clerk Administrator shall file the petition in his/her office and notify the sponsoring committee. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing of a new petitionfor the same purpose nor shall it prevent the council from referring the • ordinance to the voters at the next regular or special election at Post-1t"brand fax transmittal memo 1611 #of pages►— Tc `4 ca. co. (( Dept. phoned /4,/