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Mounds View Charter Commission Date: 08/20/2006 Resolution 2006-07 Chapter 5 Amendments Page 3 of 8 Section 3.09. When Ordinances and Resolutions Take Effect. Every resolution and emergency ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption or at such later date as it specifies. Every other ordinance shall take effect thirty days after its publication or at such later date as it specifies unless challenged by a petition for referendum. In the event of a petition for referendum; the City Council must suspend the effective date of the Ordinance as specified in Section 5.07 of this Charter. CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the The people of Motmds View reserve to themselves the powers in aeeordanee with " � i i ts of this Ghallef to initiate and adopt- ordinanees and jresolwions, to require measufes passed by the Gouneil to be JrefelTed to the eleetor for approval or disapproval, and to ireeall eleeted pt+lie offieials. These powef s shall be ealled General Voter Authority*. The j2eoIn e of Mounds View, have the right. in accordance with this Charter, to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum). exce t those that ro riate money, levy taxes or deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall). The term voter(s), as used in Chanter 5, shall refer only to residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. Per Minnesota Statute 200,039, as amended, eligibility to signthe et}i ition is not restricted to onlv those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For larity flow charts and a referendum time line are attached to the end of this cha tyer. Section 5.02. Genera' ~R ~ Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registef 5 to 10 members who are voters of the City and whose names and addresses -4taRmust appear on the petition -.-as the Sponsoring Committee. A petition may eenistconsists of one or more papers, but nagg with each separately circulated paper - shall eonAainpage containing at its hea „ or attaefted thefeto the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. .Eaeh signer shall be a f egistefed votef of the City and shall sign their name and give theif street The Committee may obtain a sample petition from the City Clerk -Administrator. The Clerk -Administrator shall provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is the total ballots cast for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition skal4must have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in tkei-rthe circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the persenvoter whose name it purports to be. The persott making the eertifieate shall be a resident ofthe City and fegisteired to ve4e�. and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a Detition must be a voter of the Citv and must sien and print their name and izive their street address. Any pefsonvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by El a statement in writing €ded-with the Clerk -Administrator before satidthe Clerk -Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.03. Determination of Petition Sufficiency. The eatrx.1i#ee shall file the eampleted City of Mounds View