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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: -54M/12/2007 Revision ef-Chapter 5 Clear Text used to produce Resolution 2007-04-a01b Page 2 of • 5 45 CHAPTER 12 46 47 MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS 48 49 Section 12.01. Official Publication. The Council shall annually designate a legal newspaper of general 50 circulation in the City as its primary official newspaper. as well as an optional secondary newspaper, in 51 which shall be published ordinances, and-other matters required by law and-or this Charter to be so 52 published, as-well as .u:uci., and any other matters the Council may deem itis in the public interest to have 53 published in this manner. 54 55 CHAPTER 5 56 INITIATIVE,REFERENDUM AM)RECALL 57 58 Section 5.01. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, have the right, in 59 accordance with this Charter,to propose ordinances jinitiative] and to require that any ordinance be 60 referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with 61 administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove 62 elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of 63 the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per 64 Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who 65 were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and referendum and 66 ballot remeasure time lines are attached to as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases.the 67 Charter text shall take priority over the appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. • 68 69 Section 5.02. Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a 70 committee of five(5)to ten (10)members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses 71 must appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition consists of one or more 72 pages gathered together as a single document. Each separately circulated page shall contain at its head, 73 or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to 74 initiative, referendum and recall. The Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the 75 City Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition 76 sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent 77 Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the 78 petition must have appended to it include a certificate signed and dated by the circulator. The certificate 79 shall affirm that each signature was made in the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes 80m the page to he contain the genuine signature signatures of the A,oter voters whose name it purport, 81 names they purport to be and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a 82 petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. The 83 completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk-Administrator for review. Any voter whose name 84 appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk- 85 Administrator before the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the 86 sufficiency of the petition. 87 88 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet 89 the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least the following: 90 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least fifteen (15) percent of the total • 91 ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 92 • Petitions for Recall require signatures of at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots cast for 93 President in the most recent Presidential election.