Section 5.01. General Voter Authority. The people 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], except those that appropriate money or levy taxes. The voters also have the right to remove elected public officials [recall]. The term voter(s), as used in Chapter 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 sign the petition is not restricted to only those who were eligible to or did cast ballots in the previous election.

Section 5.02. Petitions. To circulate a petition provided for under this chapter , it must be sponsored by a committee of five or more voters of the City whose names and addresses appear on the petition. A petition consists of one or more pages with each separately circulated page containing at its head the information specified in sections 5.05, 5.07 or 5.08 which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. The committee may obtain a sample petition from the city Clerk-Administrator. All petition circulators must be voters of the City. Each separate page of the petition must have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath. The certificate shall affirm that each signature was made in the circulator's presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the voter whose name it purports to be and that each signer was presented with the full petition. Each signer of a petition must be a voter of the City and must sign and print their name and give their street address. Any voter whose name appears on a petition may withdraw their name by filing a statement in writing with the Clerk-Administrator before the Clerk-Administrator advises the Council of the sufficiency of the petition.