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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 5 of 5 183 184 Section 5.08. Recall. The voters of the City may request a recall vote of any elected official of 185 the City by petition. The petition shall state at the head of each page, or attached thereto, a certificate 186 stating the name of the official whose removal is sought, the grounds for recall, which shall be 187 malfeasance or misfeasance in office, in not more than two hundred fifty(250) words, and the intention 188 of the Sponsoring Committee to bring about the official's recall. The petition shall be filed in the Clerk- 189 Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one hundred eighty(180) calendar days 190 during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. The Clerk-Administrator shall 191 notify the official sought to be recalled of the petition and proceed as provided in Section 5.03 and 5.04 192 of this Charter. If the Council declares the petition sufficient, it shall immediately pass a resolution to 193 place the measure on a ballot as provided for in Section 5.05 of this charter. Within fourteen (14) 194 calendar days of the declaration of sufficiency, the elected official named by the petition may provide a 195 response for their own course of action in not more than five hundred (500) words. The Clerk- 196 Administrator shall include with the published notice of the election, the statement of the grounds for 197 the recall and the response of the official concerned or a statement stating no response was received. If 198 a majority of those voting on the recall vote in its favor, it shall become effective immediately upon 199 certification of the election results. If the majority does not vote in favor, the recall has failed and a 200 petition for recall is prohibited from being repeated for that elected official for one year from the date of 201 certification of the election. If a vacancy occurs due to recall election, Section 4.05 herein shall apply to 202 fill said vacancy. 203 204 Section 5.09. Initiative to Amend the Charter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as in 205 any way affecting the right of the voters to propose amendments to this charter which can be proposed 206 in accordance with MN Statute 410.12,as amended. 207 208 Minnesota courts have limited the powers of initiative and referendum to ordinances which are 209 legislative in character. General legislative acts lay down some permanent and uniform rule of law, 210 administrative acts relate to daily administration of municipal affairs, and quasi judicial acts are the 211 product of investigation, consideration and deliberate human judgment based upon evidentiary facts of 212 some sort.