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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 7/12/2007 Revision in—Chapter 5 Clear Text used to produce Resolution 2007-01 e Page 3 of 5 94 cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. 95 If all requirements have been met, the Clerk-Administrator shall report to the Council within ten (10) 96 calendar days of receipt of the completed petition. Thereafter, the Council shall immediately declare the 97 sufficiency of the petition by resolution. 98 99 Section 5.04. Disposition of Insufficient or Frivolous Petition. If the petition appears to be 100 frivolous, the Clerk-Administrator shall report to the Council within ten(10) calendar days of receipt of 101 the petition. If the Council determines the petition is frivolous, the Council shall direct the Clerk- 102 Administrator to file the petition as frivolous and no further action shall be taken. If the Clerk- 103 Administrator determines that the petition does not meet the requirements for sufficiency and is not 104 determined to be frivolous, a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, shall 105 be delivered to the Sponsoring Committee and to the Council within ten(10) calendar days of receipt of 106 the completed petition. As specified in this Charter, the Sponsoring Committee shall have twenty-one 107 (21) calendar days to file additional signature papers and/or to correct the specified insufficiency. 108 Within nine (9) calendar days of receipt of the corrected completed petition, the Clerk-Administrator 109 shall determine whether the petition as corrected meets the requirements for sufficiency and shall 110 proceed as directed in Section 5.03. If the petition is still insufficient, the Council shall direct the Clerk- 111 Administrator to file the petition as insufficient and notify the Sponsoring Committee within ten(10) 112 calendar days that no further action will be taken. The final finding that the petition is insufficient shall 113 not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose unless otherwise specified within this 114 Charter. Except in the case of a petition for recall, it shall not prevent the Council from referring the 115 subject matter of the petition to the voters at the next regular or special election. 116 117 Section 5.05. Ballot Measure Requirements. If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a 118 ballot and is in compliance with Chapter 4 of this Charter, at or before its next regularly scheduled 119 meeting, the Council shall pass a resolution placing the measure on a ballot. If it is within one hundred 120 twenty(120) calendar days of a primary or general election and all of the county election requirements 121 can be met, the measure shall be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election. 122 123 If a measure meets the requirements to be put on a ballot but cannot be placed on the ballot at a 124 regularly scheduled election, at or before its next regularly scheduled meeting, the Council shall pass a 125 resolution placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within one 126 hundred twenty (120) calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between 127 a regular primary election and a regular general election or forty (40) calendar days after a regular 128 general election. If there is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within 129 sixty(60) calendar days prior to a regular general election. 130 131 Section 5.06. Initiative*. An ordinance may be proposed by petition. The exact text of the 132 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The 133 petition shall be filed in the Clerk-Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one 134 hundred eighty (180) calendar days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be 135 filed. If a petition for initiative is determined to be frivolous, it is prohibited from being repeated within 136 one hundred eighty(180) calendar days of the determination. Within sixty(60) calendar days after final 137 determination of the petition's sufficiency according to Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this Charter, the 138 Council must either adopt an ordinance according to Subdivisions 1 or 2 or pass a resolution to place the 139 measure on a ballot as provided in Subdivision 3. Any amendment to the proposed ordinance must 140 proceed according to Subdivision 2 of this section. If an ordinance is adopted, it shall become effective 141 thirty(30) calendar days after publication unless the ordinance specifies a later effective date. If the vote 142 for adoption fails, the ordinance must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If a ballot