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CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING <br /> <br />Ordinance 743 will go before a Public Hearing on September 13, 2004 at 7:05pm for a second reading and adoption. This is an Ordinance Amending Chapter 5 of the Mounds View City Charter. <br /> The Ordinance reads as follows: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. 743 <br /> <br />CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY CHARTER <br />BY AMENDING CHAPTER 5 OF THE CITY CHARTER <br /> <br />THE CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW DOES HEREBY ORDAIN: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Mounds View, pursuant to the recommendation of the City of Mounds View Charter Commission, has hereby determined that Chapter 5 of the Charter <br /> of the City of Mounds View relating to “Initiative, Referendum and Recall” be rewritten in its entirety as follows: <br /> <br />INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL <br /> <br /> Section 5.01. General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View have the right, in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance <br /> be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money or levy taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), <br /> 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 <br /> amended), eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. <br /> <br /> Section 5.02. Petitions. To circulate a petition provided for under this chapter, it must be sponsored by a committee of five or more voters of the City whose names and addresses appear <br /> on the petition. A petition consists of one or more pages with each separately circulated page containing at its head the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which <br /> apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of <br /> the City. Each separate page of the petition must have