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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 3/14/2007 Resolution 2007-01 Final Markup format — Chapter 5 Page 2 of 5 47 Council must suspend the effective date of the Ordinance as specified in Section 5.07 of this 48 Charter. 49 50 CHAPTER 5 51 52 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 53 54 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, 55 reserve to themselves the powers have the right, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, to initiate and 56 adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the electorate for approval or 57 disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, 58 respectively to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the 59 voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative 60 issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public 61 officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of 62 Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota 63 Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were 64 eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and referendum and 65 ballot issue time lines are attached to the end of this charter. 66 67 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall 68 be sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and 69 whose names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A 70 completed petition may consistconsists of one or more but each pages gathered together as a 71 single document. Each separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, 72 the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, 73 referendum and recall. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street 74 address.The Sponsoring Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk -Administrator. 75 The Clerk -Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is 76 based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All 77 petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition shallmust have 78 appended to it a certificate signed and dated by the circulator, verified by elk,. The certificate shall 79 affirm that each signature appended thereto was made in theirthe circulator's presence and that the 80 circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the perseri-voter whose name it purports to be— 81 The person making the certificate shall be a resident of the City and registered to vote. and that each signer was 82 presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign 83 and print their name and give their street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the 84 Clerk -Administrator for review. Any persenvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw 85 their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk -Administrator before saidthe Clerk- 86 Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the petition. 87 88 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition 89 in the office of the Clerk Administrator. The required number of signers shall be at least fifteen percent for initiative and 90 referendum, and for recall, at least twcnty five percent of the total number of electors who cast their votes for president at the 91 last presidential election. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the Clerk Administrator shall examine the petition as to 92 its sufficiency and report to the Council within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the Council shall determine by resolution 93 the sufficiency of the petition. 94 For a petition to be sufficient, it must meet the requirements set forth in section 5.02 and contain at 95 least the following: 96 • Petitions for Initiative and Referendum require signatures of at least fifteen (15) percent of total