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CHAPTER 5 ( Markup Revision J ) INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the Deeple. The peke eF WendsView reseFve to themselves the 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. 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 Citv of 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 a referendum timeline are attached to the end of this chapter. Section 5.02. Goner , Dr,....&. w f r Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of 5 to 15 members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses sappear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A petition may ee consists of one or more pages with each separately circulated papef shall eentapage containing at its head,or aaaehed the fet , the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Eaeh signer shall be a registered voter-of ffie G4y and shall sign thei nafne and give thee-street addfess.The committee may obtain a sample petition from the it Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition smust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended theret was made in 4teirthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the *voter whose name it purports to be. be a s.aent of the City and fe .stored to vote. 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. Any persenKoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk- Administrator before sa tithe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee smust file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator at least 10 calendar days before the ordinance takes effect. The fequifed ni+mbef of signers shall be a4 least fifteen per-eent fe initiative and referendum,and for recall, I I I -�e percent of the tota!mmiber of eleeters who cast thei 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 Recall require at least 25 percent. Within 10 calendar days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the pet determine if its sufficiency and report to the r,,,,. ei ,..ithi,ten days.can be declared by Markup Revision J Page 1 of 4