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CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 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 be referred to the voters (referendum), except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials (recall). The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and time lines are attached as appendices at the end of this Charter. In all cases, the Charter text shall take priority over the appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. (Amended by Ordinance 790, Adopted July 23, 2007; Filed: August 29, 2007.) Section 5.02. Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five (5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses must appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition consists of one or more pages gathered together as a single document. Each separately circulated page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectfully, to initiative, referendum and recall. The Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Administrator. The City Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition must include a certificate signed and dated by the circulator. The certificate shall affirm that each circulator believes the page to contain the genuine signatures of the voters whose names they purport to be and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the City Administrator for review. Any voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the City Administrator before the City Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the petition or, if such completed petition is deemed insufficient pursuant to this Charter, during any time period that additional signature papers are being circulated by the Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by the City Administrator pursuant to Section 5.04. Consistent with the provisions of this Charter and the applicable state laws and rules, the Council may prescribe by ordinance or resolution, the definition of a frivolous petition. (Amended by Ordinance 790, Adopted July 23, 2007; Filed: August 29, 2007.) Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at least the following: • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures numbering at least fifteen (15) percent of the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. • Petitions for Recall require signatures at least twenty five (25) percent of the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 9