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Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the Pcoplc General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View reserve to themselves serves have the powers right, in accordance with provisions of • . -. .iii i i . I • .i i i• -. i. i i. Council to this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall voters [referendum, except those that appropriate money or levy taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials. Thcsc powers shall be called the initiative, thc rcfcrendur and the recall, respectively [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039 (as amended), eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. ATo circulate a petition provided for under this chapter shall, it must be sponsored by a committee of five registered or more voters of the City whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition may consists of one or more papers, butpages with each separately circulated paper shall contain page containing at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. :-" ":" City and shall sign their name and give their street address The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition shailmust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath,-. The certificate shall affirm that each signaturethere`o was made in their the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the person voter whose name it purports to be. The person�� making the certificate shall be a resident and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter • of the City and registered to vote must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any person voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing-fi ed with the Clerk-Administrator before said the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall must file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. For a petition to be sufficient, the required number of signers signatures shall be at least fifteen percent - . - - - -:. --, ; -6 : - -; a percentage of that number. • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. • Petitions for Recall, at least 25 percent. twenty-five percent of the total number of electors Within 10 working days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall as to determine its sufficiency. Upon final determination of sufficiency, the Clerk-Administer shall report the date of the determination and its sufficiency and report to the Council within ten days. to the Council at or before the next regularly scheduled meeting. Upon receipt of the report, the Council shall determine by resolution immediately declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution including the reported date of determination of sufficiency. Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the CouncitClerk- Administrator determines that the sufficiency of a petition is cannot be declared, it shall be determined to be insufficient or irregular. The Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee and to the • City Council. The committee shall have thirty-30 calender days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the petition in all other particulars, except that, in thc case of a petition for recall, the committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which the recall is sought.