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Sec. 5.03. Determination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the <br /> • completed petition in the Office of the Clerk-Administrator. The required <br /> number of signers shall be at least fifteen percent for initiative and <br /> referendum, and for recall, at least twenty-five percent of the total number <br /> of electors who cast their votes for president at the last presidential <br /> election. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator <br /> shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council <br /> within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine <br /> by resolution the sufficiency of the petition. <br /> Subd. 2. If the City Council determines on its own motion that a sufficient <br /> and regular petition for initiative, referendum or recall is determined to be <br /> illegal under case law, legal precedence, or constitutional non-conformity, <br /> thereby refusing to submit an initiative, referendum or recall question to <br /> the voters, as provided in this Charter, a proper court order permitting the <br /> City Council authority to refuse such election must be produced by the <br /> Council within 15 days of the date of determination of sufficiency. If the <br /> Council has not acted according to this subdivision within the above 15 <br /> day period, the sponsoring committee may appeal to the Charter <br /> Commission and the Charter Commission shall provide for said election <br /> • to be paid for by the City. The Clerk-Administrator shall provide for said <br /> election upon the order of a majority vote of the Charter Commission. <br /> • <br />