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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-Ole Final Markup format Date7/12/2007 Page 2 of 6 47 CHAPTER 12 48 MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS 49 50 Section 12.01. Official Publication. The Council shall annually designate a legal newspaper of general 51 circulation in the City as its primary official newspaper, as well as an optional secondary newspaper, in which 52 shall be published ordinances and other matters required by law for this Charter to be so published, as- 53 well as suchand any other matters as -the Council may deem ibis in the public interest to have published in this 54 manner. 55 56 CHAPTER 5 57 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 58 59 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds 60 View, reserve to themselves the powers have the right, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, te- 61 initiate and adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the 62 electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the 63 initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that 64 any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or 65 deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to 66 remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to 67 residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. 68 Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those 69 who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and time lines are 70 attached as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases, the Charter text shall take priority over the 71 appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. 72 73 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be 74 sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose 75 names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition 76 may consistconsists of one or more papers, but each pages gathered together as a single document. Each 77 separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in 78 sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer 79 shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street address.The Sponsoring 80 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the Clerk -Administrator. The Clerk -Administrator shall 81 provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast 82 for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. 83 Each separate page of the petition shallmust have appended to it include a certificate signed and dated by 84 the circulator, verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended thereto was made 85 in theifthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them the page to be -contain the genuine 86 signatures of the person voters whose names it -they purports to be. The person making the certificate shall 87 be a re ident efthe City and registered to vote. and that each signer was presented with the full petition. 88 Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their 89 street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk -Administrator for review. Any 90 personvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing 91 filed -with the Clerk -Administrator before saidthe Clerk -Administrator advises the Council of the 92 information related to the sufficiency of the petition or, if such completed petition is deemed insufficient 93 pursuant to this Charter, during any time period that additional signature papers are being circulated by the 94 Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by the Clerk -Administrator pursuant to Section 5.04. Consistent with 95 the provisions of this Charter and the applicable state laws and rules, the Council may prescribe by 96 ordinance or resolution, the definition of a frivolous petition. 97