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Mounds View Charter Commission Date7/12/2007 Resolution 2007-01e Final Markup format Page 2 of 6 CHAPTER 12 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 which 51 shall be published ordinances and , other matters required by law andor this Charter to be so published, as 52 well as suchand any other matters as the Council may deem itis in the public interest to have published in this 53 manner. 54 55 CHAPTER 5 56 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 57 58 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds 59 View, reserve to themselves the powers have the right, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, to 60 initiate and adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the 61 electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the 62 initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that 63 any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or 64 deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to 65 remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to 66 residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. 67 Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those 68 who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and time lines are 69 attached as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases, the Charter text shall take priority over the 70 appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. 71 72 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be 73 sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose 74 names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition 75 may consistconsists of one or more papers, but each pages gathered together as a single document. Each 76 separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in 77 sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer 78 shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street address.The Sponsoring 79 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall 80 provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast 81 for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. 82 Each separate page of the petition shallmust have appended to it include a certificate signed and dated by 83 the circulator, verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended thereto was made 84 in theirthe circulator’s presence and that the circulator believes them the page to be contain the genuine 85 signatures of the person voters whose names it they purports to be. The person making the certificate shall 86 be a resident of the City and registered to vote. and that each signer was presented with the full petition. 87 Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their 88 street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk-Administrator for review. Any 89 personvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing 90 filed with the Clerk-Administrator before saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the 91 information related to the sufficiency of the petition or, if such completed petition is deemed insufficient 92 pursuant to this Charter, during any time period that additional signature papers are being circulated by the 93 Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by the Clerk-Administrator pursuant to Section 5.04. Consistent with 94 the provisions of this Charter and the applicable state laws and rules, the Council may prescribe by 95 ordinance or resolution, the definition of a frivolous petition. 96 97