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Mounds View Charter Commission Date7/12/2007 Resolution 2007-01e Final Markup format Page 2 of 6 CHAPTER 1247 MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS48 49 Section 12.01. Official Publication. The Council shall annually designate a legal newspaper of general50 circulation in the City as its primary official newspaper, as well as an optional secondary newspaper, in which51 shall be published ordinances and , other matters required by law andor this Charter to be so published, as52 well as suchand any other matters as the Council may deem itis in the public interest to have published in this53 manner. 54 55 CHAPTER 556 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL57 58 Section 5.01. Powers Reserved by the People. General Voter Authority*. The people of Mounds59 View, reserve to themselves the powers have the right, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, to60 initiate and adopt ordinances and resolutions, to require measures passed by the Council to be referred to the61 electorate for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the62 initiative, the referendum, and the recall, respectively to propose ordinances [initiative] and to require that63 any ordinance be referred to the voters [referendum], except those that appropriate money, levy taxes or64 deal with administrative issues (MN Statute 410.20, as amended). The voters also have the right to65 remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 5, shall refer only to66 residents of the City of Mounds View who first register, or who have registered and are qualified to vote. 67 Per Minnesota Statute 200.039, as amended, eligibility to sign the petition is not restricted to only those68 who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election. For clarity flow charts and time lines are69 attached as appendices at the end of this charter. In all cases, the Charter text shall take priority over the70 appendices should there appear to be a discrepancy. 71 72 Section 5.02. General Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall be73 sponsored by a committee of five registered(5) to ten (10) members who are voters of the City and whose74 names and addresses shallmust appear on the petition as the Sponsoring Committee. A completed petition75 may consistconsists of one or more papers, but each pages gathered together as a single document. Each76 separately circulated paper page shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in77 sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer78 shall be a registered voter of the City and shall sign their name and give their street address.The Sponsoring79 Committee may obtain a sample petition from the Clerk-Administrator. The Clerk-Administrator shall80 provide the number of signatures for petition sufficiency which is based on the total number of ballots cast81 for President in the most recent Presidential election. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. 82 Each separate page of the petition shallmust have appended to it include a certificate signed and dated by83 the circulator, verified by oath,. The certificate shall affirm that each signature appended thereto was made84 in theirthe circulator’s presence and that the circulator believes them the page to be contain the genuine85 signatures of the person voters whose names it they purports to be. The person making the certificate shall86 be a resident of the City and registered to vote. and that each signer was presented with the full petition. 87 Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their88 street address. The completed petition shall be submitted to the Clerk-Administrator for review. Any89 personvoter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing90 filed with the Clerk-Administrator before saidthe Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the91 information related to the sufficiency of the petition or, if such completed petition is deemed insufficient92 pursuant to this Charter, during any time period that additional signature papers are being circulated by the93 Sponsoring Committee or reviewed by the Clerk-Administrator pursuant to Section 5.04. Consistent with94 the provisions of this Charter and the applicable state laws and rules, the Council may prescribe by95 ordinance or resolution, the definition of a frivolous petition. 96 97