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Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View reserve to themselves have the s-ricer in accordance with the provisions Of this Charter to initiate and adopt ordinanees and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Cet neiFto this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the eleeterate for approval or disapproval, and to reeall voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money or levy taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials. These powers shall be ealled the initiative, the referendurn, and the reeall, 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 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. Section 5.02. Petitions. ATo circulate a petition provided for under this chapter shall, it must be sponsored by a committee of five registered-or more voters of the City whose names and addresses shallappear on the petition. A petition may-consists of one or more papers, butpages with each separately circulated paper shall eontain page containing at its head, or attached 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 6ity and shall sign their narne and give their street address 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 sh-aflmust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended thefeterwas made in their the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the perserrvoter whose name it purports to be. The person rnaking the certificate shall be a resident and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and registered to vote must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any perserrvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing4Hed with the Clerk-Administrator before sai-d-the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee sho* must file the completed petition in the office of the Clerk-Administrator. 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 signers shall be a percentage of that number. • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. • Petitions for Recall, at least 25 percent. twenty-five pereent of the total nurnber of electors who east their votes for president at the last presidential eleetion. Irnmediately upon Within 10 working days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall examine the petition as to its sufficiency. Upon final determination of sufficiency, the Clerk-Administer shall report the date of the determination and its sufficiency and report to the Couneil within ton days. 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 6oune"Clerk- Administrator determines that the sufficiency of a petition is cannot 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 committee shall have thirty-30 calender days in which to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the , On the case of a petition fo