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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-Ole Final Markup format — Chapter 5 Date7/ 12/2007 Page 2 of 6 45 CHAPTER 12 46 MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS 47 48 Section 12.01. Official Publication. The Council shall annually designate a legal newspaper of general 49 circulation in the City as its primary official newspaper, as well as an optional secondary newspaper, in which 50 shall be published ordinances -and -,other matters required by law for this Charter to be so published, as well as 51 saehand any other matters as -the Council may deem iris in the public interest to have published in this manner. 52 53 CHAPTER 5 54 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL 55 56 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds View, reserve 57 to themselves the powers have the right, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, to initiate and adopt 58 ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the electorate for approval or disapproval, and 59 to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively to propose 60 ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except 61 those that appropriate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as 62 amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as 63 used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have 64 registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the 65 petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For 66 clarity flow charts and time lines are attached as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases, the 67 Charter text shall take priority over the appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. 68 69 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be 70 sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose 71 names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition 72 may consistconsists of one or more papers, but each pages gathered together as a single document. Each 73 separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in 74 sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer shall be 75 a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street address.The Sponsoring Committee may obtain 76 a sample petition from the Clerk -Administrator. The Clerk -Administrator shall provide the number of 77 signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast for President in the 78 most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page 79 of the petition challmust have appended to it include a certificate signed and dated by the circulator,- 80 verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature append e-was made in theifthe 81 circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them the page to be -contain the genuine signatures of 82 the person voters whose names it -they purports to be. The person making the certificate shall be a resident of the City and 83 registered to vote. and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be 84 a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. The completed 85 petition shall be submitted to the Clerk -Administrator for review. Any persenvoter whose name appears on 86 a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing filed with the Clerk -Administrator 87 before saidthe Clerk -Administrator advises the Council of the information related to the sufficiency of the 88 petition or, if such completed petition is deemed insufficient pursuant to this Charter, during any time 89 period that additional signature papers are being circulated by the Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by 90 the Clerk -Administrator pursuant to Section 5.04. Consistent with the provisions of this Charter and the 91 applicable state laws and rules, the Council may prescribe by ordinance or resolution, the definition of a 92 frivolous petition. 93 94 Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition in the 95 office of the Clerk Administrator. The required number of signers shall be at least fifteen percent for initiative and referendum, and