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I CHAPTER 5 (Draft markup 6/5/2003) 2 3 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 4 s Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. The people of Mounds View 6 reserve to themselves the powers in accordance with the provisions of this Charter to 7 initiate and adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council 8 to be referred to the e'ectorate voters for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected 9 public officials. These powers shall be called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, 10 respectively. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer to only qualified and 11 registered voters of the City of Mounds View. 12 13 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this 14 chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered votersof the City whose 15 names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition may consist of one or more 16 papers, but each separately circulated paper shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, 17 the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to 18 initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the City and 19 shall sign their name and give their street address. Each separate page of the petition 20 shall have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each 21 signature appended thereto was made in their presence and that the circulator believes 22 them to be the genuine signature of the person voter whose name it purports to be. The 23 person circulator making the certificate shall be aresident.voter of the City and regist 24 to vote. n� pefs-err voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by 25 a statement in writin—gTiTed with the Clerk-Administrator before said Clerk-Administrator 26 advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. 27 28 Section 5.03. Determination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed 29 petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. The required number of signers shall be 30 at least fifteen percent for initiative and referendum, and for recall, at least twenty-five 31 percent of the total number of e+ectsrs voters who cast their votes for president at the last 32 presidential election. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator 33 shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency and report to the Council within ten days. 34 Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the 35 petition. 36 37 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Council 38 determines that the petition is insufficient or irregular, the Clerk-Administrator shall deliver 39 a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring 40 committee. The committee shall have thirty days in which to file additional signature 41 papers and/or to correct the petition in all other particulars, except that, in the case of a 42 petition for recall, the committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which 43 the recall is sought. Within five days of receipt of the corrected petition, the 44 Clerk-Administrator shall again report to the Council. If the Council finds that the petition 45 is still insufficient or irregular, the Clerk-Administrator shall file the petition and notify the 46 sponsoring committee. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not 47 prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, nor shall it prevent the Council 48 from referring the subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special 49 election. 50 51 Section 5.05. Initiative. Any ordinance may be proposed by a petition which shall 52 state at the head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed 53 ordinance. If the Council passes the proposed ordinance with amendments, and a majority 54 of the sponsoring committee do not disapprove the amended form by a statement filed with