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Section 5.01. General Voter Authority. The people of Mounds View have the ems-right, in accordance with this Charter to initiate and adopt ordinane . d ,esolutions, to r�%Jmll neasures p ssed by thle Council to this Charter, to propose ordinances f initiativel and to require that any ordinance be referred to the eleetorate 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 t respeetivel 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 reel or more voters of the City whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition q-consists of one or more pages with each separately circulated paper shall contain page containing at its head, or attaehed thereto, 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 the Gity and shall sign th-i - - - id 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 sbaffmust have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath;. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in their the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the pers voter 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 sinner 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 sort-voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filin a statement in writing-fflef with the Clerk-Administrator before said-the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee s -af 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 signatures shall be at 'east fifteen p reent, for initiative and referenduni, and fo, reeall a percentage of that number. • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require at least 15 percent. • Petitions for Recall, at least 25 percent.whe east their votes for president at the last presidential eleetion. Ifflfflediately t1pon Within 10 working days of receipt of the petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall exarnine 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 Council within ton days. Upon to the Council at or before the next regularly scheduled meeting. Upon receipt of the report, the Council shall deterffline byimmediately 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 6odneiiClerk- 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 ease of a petition fo