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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 7/12/2007 Revision in—Chapter 5 Clear Text compared to Revision k Page 5 of 5 193 suspension. If the corrected petition is declared sufficient according to Section 5.03, the Council must 194 pass a resolution suspending the effective date of the ordinance until it can be decided by a vote of the 195 public and proceed as previously mentioned in this section. (Amended, Ord. 651, 8-16-2000) 196 197 Section 5.08. Recall. The voters of the City may request a recall vote of any elected official of 198 the City by petition. The petition shall state at the head of each page, or attached thereto, a certificate 199 stating the name of the official whose removal is sought, the grounds for recall, which shall be 200 malfeasance or misfeasance in office, in not more than two hundred fifty(250) words, and the intention 201 of the Sponsoring Committee to bring about the official's recall. The petition shall be filed in the Clerk- 202 Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one hundred eighty (180) calendar days 203 during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. The Clerk-Administrator shall 204 notify the official sought to be recalled of the petition and proceed as provided in Section 5.03 and 5.04 205 of this Charter. If a petition for recall is determined to be frivolous, it is prohibited from being repeated 206 within one year of the determination. If the Council declares the petition sufficient, it shall immediately 207 pass a resolution to place the measure on a ballot as provided for in Section 5.05 of this charter. Within 208 fourteen (14) calendar days of the declaration of sufficiency, the elected official named by the petition 209 may provide a response for their own course of action in not more than five hundred(500)words. The 210 Clerk-Administrator shall include with the published notice of the election, the statement of the grounds 211 for the recall and the response of the official concerned or a statement stating no response was received. 212 If a majority of those voting on the recall vote in its favor, it shall become effective immediately upon 213 certification of the election results. If the majority does not vote in favor, the recall has failed and a 214 petition for recall is prohibited from being repeated for that elected official for one year from the date of 215 certification of the election. If a vacancy occurs due to recall election, Section 4.05 herein shall apply to 216 fill said vacancy. 217 218 Section 5.09. Initiative to Amend the Charter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as in 219 any way affecting the right of the voters to propose amendments to this charter which can be proposed 220 in accordance with MN Statute 410.12,as amended. 221 222 Minnesota courts have limited the powers of initiative and referendum to ordinances which are 223 legislative in character. General legislative acts lay down some permanent and uniform rule of law, 224 administrative acts relate to daily administration of municipal affairs, and quasi judicial acts are the 225 product of investigation, consideration and deliberate human judgment based upon evidentiary facts of 226 some sort.