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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 /> umber of signers shall be at least fifteen percent for initiative and <br /> erendum, and for recall, at least twenty-five percent of the total number of <br /> electors who cast their votes for president at the last presidential election. <br /> Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the clerk-administrator shall examir <br /> the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the council within ten days. <br /> Upon receiving the report, the council shall determine by resolution the <br /> sufficiency of the petition. <br /> Subd. 2. If the City Council determines on its own motion that a sufficient and <br /> regular petition for initiative, referendum or recall is determined to be illegal <br /> under case law, legal precedence, or constitutional non-conformity, thereby <br /> refusing to submit a initiative, referendum or recall question to the voters, as <br /> provided in this charter, a proper court order permitting the City Council <br /> authority to refuse such election must be produced by the council within 15 <br /> days of the date of determination of sufficiency. If the council has not acted <br /> according to this subdivision within the above 15 day period, the sponsoring <br /> committee may appeal to the Charter Commission and the Charter Commission <br /> alaaLprovide for said election to be paid by the city. The Clerk-Administrator <br /> shall provide for said election upon the order of a majority vote of the Charter <br /> fitommission. This subdivision shall not apply to initiative, referendum or recall <br /> titions shown to be manifestly unconstitutional. <br /> 1 <br /> III <br />