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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 6/28/2007 Revision k—Chapter 5 Clear Text used to produce Resolution 2007-01 d Page 3 of 5 93 94 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the Clerk-Administrator 95 determines that the petition does not meet the requirements for sufficiency, a copy of the petition, 96 together with a written statement of its defects, shall be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to 97 the Council within ten(10) calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. As specified in this 98 Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall have twenty-one (21) calendar days to file additional signature 99 papers and/or to correct the specified irregularity. Within nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the 100 corrected completed petition, the Clerk-Administrator shall determine whether the petition as corrected 101 meets the requirements for sufficiency and shall proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is 102 still insufficient or irregular, the Council shall direct the Clerk-Administrator to file the petition as 103 insufficient and notify the Sponsoring Committee within ten (10) calendar days that no further action 104 will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient or irregular shall not prejudice the filing 105 of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this Charter. Except in the case 106 of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the subject matter of the petition to 107 the voters at the next regular or special election. 108 109 Section 5.05. Ballot Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a 110 ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 111 meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within one hundred 112 twenty(120) calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements 113 can be met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. 114 115 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a 116 regularly scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the Council shall pass a 117 resolution placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within one 118 hundred twenty (120) calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between 119 a regular primary election and a regular general election or forty(40) calendar days after a regular 120 general election. If there is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within 121 sixty(60) calendar days prior to a regular general election. 122 123 Section 5.06. Initiative*. An ordinance may be proposed by petition. The exact text of the 124 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The 125 petition shall be filed in the Clerk-Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one 126 hundred eighty (180) calendar days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be 127 filed. Within sixty (60) calendar days after final determination of the petition's sufficiency according to 128 Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this Charter, the Council must either adopt an ordinance according to 129 Subdivisions 1 or 2 or pass a resolution to place the measure on a ballot as provided in Subdivision 3. 130 Any amendment to the proposed ordinance must proceed according to Subdivision 2 of this section. If 131 an ordinance is adopted, it shall become effective thirty(30) calendar days after publication unless the 132 ordinance specifies a later effective date. If the vote for adoption fails, the ordinance must be placed on 133 the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If a ballot measure for a proposed ordinance fails the same 134 measure is prohibited from being brought forward again as an initiative within six months of the election 135 certification. Failure of a ballot measure for a proposed ordinance shall not prevent the Council from 136 proposing a similar ordinance. 137 138 Subdivision 1. If the Council elects to adopt the ordinance as provided by the petition without 139 amendment, they shall proceed in accordance with Section 3.05 of this Charter. During this adoption 140 process, the ordinance cannot be amended but, if adopted, is subject to the referendum process as 141 defined in Section 5.07.