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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/14/2007 Revision—Chapter 5 Clear Text used to produce Res 2007-01d Page 2 of Error! Bookmark not defined. 43 44 Section 3.09. When Ordinances and Resolutions Take Effect. Every resolution and 45 emergency ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption or at such later date as it 46 specifies. Every other ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its publication or at such 47 later date as it specifies unless challenged by a petition for referendum. In the event of a petition 48 for referendum, the City Council must suspend the effective date of the 9rdinance as specified in 49 Section 5.07 of this Charter. 50 51 CHAPTER 5 52 INITIATIVE,REFERENDUM AND RECALL 53 54 Section 5.01. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, have the right, in 55 accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance 56 be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal 57 with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to 58 remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only 59 to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are 60 qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is 61 not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For 62 clarity flow charts and referendum and ballot issue time lines are attached to the end of this 63 charter. 64 65 Section 5.02. Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by 66 a committee of five (5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose names and 67 addresses must appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition 68 consists of one or more pages gathered together as a single document. Each separately circulated 69 page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 70 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. The Sponsoring 71 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk- 72 Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on 73 the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition 74 circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition must have appended to 75 it a certificate signed and dated by the circulator. The certificate shall affirm that each signature 76 was made in the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine 77 signature of the voter whose name it purports to be and that each signer was presented with the 78 full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their 79 name and give their street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk- 80 Administrator for review. Any voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their 81 name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk-Administrator before the Clerk- 82 Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the petition. 83 84 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. For a petition to be sufficient, it 85 must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least the following: 86 310483v2 SJR MU210-4