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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 2/8/2007 Resolution 2007-01b Draft Markup format—Chapter 5 Page 2 of 5 • 47 Council must suspend the effective date of the Ordinance as specified in Section 5.07 of this 48 Charter. 49 50 CHAPTER 5 51 52 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 53 54 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People.General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, 55 - . • . - .. _. - have the right,in accordance with visions-e this Charter,to initiate and 56 .. . . • . . , ... .. • .. . .• __. . . • - . . . . . 57 , . •- - ..- . .. _ .. . . .. •- _. , 58 respectively to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the 59 voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative 60 issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public 61 officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of 62 Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota 63 Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were 64 eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and referendum and 65 ballot issue time lines are attached to the end of this charter. 66 67 Section 5.02. General Provisions f r Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall 68 be sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10)members who are voters of the City and 69 whose names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 70 completed petition may censistconsists of one or more paper -pages gathered together as a • 71 single document. Each separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, 72 the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively,to initiative, 73 referendum and recall. -. . •_ .• . - . : • •- .•. ,•. _ .- . . _ . •• -- 74 eddress:The Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. 75 The Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is 76 based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All 77 petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition shallmust have 78 appended to it a certificate by the circulator,verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each 79 signature appended ierete-was made in theifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes 80 them to be the genuine signature of the person voter whose name it purports to be. The person making the 81 _ _. . :• . - - -• : -:'• • . and that each signer was presented with the full 82 petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name 83 and give their street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk-Administrator 84 for review. Any perseavoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a 85 statement in writing flied-with the Clerk-Administrator before saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises 86 the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the petition. 87 88 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition ... .- -- . . . . . 90 . - . ... -• , _•• _ ... •.. ._ -- - •: • •-• . - - . • 91 : . . •_ _. . __ :-, .. .. ,. . . -• :: * •:- 93 . .• • 93 •- . _ . - - - 94 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at • 95 least the following: 96 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least fifteen (15)percent of total