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CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE,REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.01. Powers Rese ,ed b th pgppLe.General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View reserve to+iierase es tjiepower-shave the right, in accordance with the previsions efthis Charter to initiate and-"-- to propose ordinances and resolutions,—[initiative] and to require measeFes passed by the coupe., to that any ordinance be referred to the eleeterate for appre ? voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money or disappre_.a,, ��a levy taxes. 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 City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are aualified 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. Section 5.02. Genef , Dr,.yi&i ns f r Petitions. ATo circulate a petition provided for under this chapter, it must be sponsored by a committee of five register or more voters of the City whose names and addresses sappear on the petition. A petition may ee consists of one or more but-pages with each separately circulated paper shall eonta rig ge containing at its head, or a4taehed thereto, the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their stree addfess.The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition & must have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature eppe�ae�was made in tiiteirthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the pefseevoter whose name it purports to be. The pefsen..,akin and that each signer was presented with the eort.fieato shall be a resident of the City and registered to v +.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. Any pefseevoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing €with the Clerk-Administrator before the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee & must file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. The required number fsigners shall at least fifteen pereent The Clerk-Administrator shall provide the number of total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. For a petition to be sufficient, the required number of signatures shall be a percentage of that number. • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. • Petitions for initiative and ref,.era,,...., and for reeallRecall, at least twenty 25 percent tAtAl mim Prz Af PIPptAr-s who east their—votes for-president at the last presidential e tely Within 10 working days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall e*araine the petition as to determine its sufficiency and report to the Counei! within ten days. Upon feeeivi�final determination of sufficiency, the Clerk-Administer shall report the date of the determination and its sufficiency to the Council at or before the next regularly scheduled meeting. Upon receipt of the report, the Council shall immediately declare the sufficiency of the petition by resolution including the reported date of determination of sufficiency. Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Clerk-Administrator determines that the sufficiency of a petition iscannot be declared, it shall be determined to be insufficient or irregular. The Clerk-Administrator shall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the sponsoring committee and to the City Council. The