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Section 5.1;, P themselves ~th~ ordinances, i, to approval orl'di initiative, tt{e Section be sponsor ~,6d shall appo~ o circulated Pgpe 5.5, 5,7. d~r 5 shall be a r~gis CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL )wets Reserved by the People. The people of the City of Ramsey reserve to powers in accordance with the provisions 'of this charter to initiate and adopt require ordinances passed by the council to be referred to the electorate for approval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall 'be called the ~ferendum, and the recall, respectively. ~neral Provisions for Petitions. A petition provided for under this chapter shall iY a committee of five registered voters of the city whose names and addresses the petition. A petition may consist of one or more papers, but each separately :shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 8. which apply, respectively, to initiative, referendum and recall. Each signer :.ered voter of the city and shall sign his/her name and give his/her street address. Each. separable g[age of the petition shall have appended to it a Certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, tha~ e~eh signature appended thereto was made in his/her presence and that the circulator believes thi~m.~,: ~ o be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The person maldn~he certificate shall be a resident of the city and registered to vote. Any person whose nam~ al~pears on a petition may withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed with the cle~ko~dministrator before said clerk-administrator advises the council of the sufficiency of the petition, il Section 5.3i ~otermination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition in the office ~f~e clerk-administrator. The required number of signatures for initiative and referendum !gh~ll be at least ten percent of the total number of registered voters at the time of the last city-wi~ie ~l]ection. The required number of signatures for recall shall be at least twenty percent of !h~ total number of registered voters at the time of the last city-wide election. Immediately u~i0n receipt of the petition, the clerk-administrator shall examine the petition as to its sufficienCy, tnd report to the council within ten days. Upon receiving the report, the council shall deterrr~ne by resolution the sufficiency of the petition. Section 5.4i £ iaposition of Insufficient or Irregular Petition. If the council determines that the petition!s tsufficient or irregular, as defined in sections 5.3. and 5.2. respectively, the clerk- administrat¢~r tall deliver a copy of the petition, together with a written statement of its defects, to the spon,,¢ri ~g committee. The committee shall have thirty days in which to file additional signature p@et ;,and/or to correct the petition in all other particulars, except that, in the case of a petition for~re~all, the committee may not change the statement of the grounds on which the' recall is so~g~. Within five days of receipt of the corrected petition, the clerk-administrator shall again' XeLsi2ort to the council. If the council finds that the petition is still insufficient or irregular, th~ c~k-administrator shall file the petition in his/her office and notify the sPonsoring committee. [:T~e final finding that the petmon ~s ~nsuffiment or ~rregular shall not preJudice the filing of a ri~e~ipetition for the same purpose, nor shall it prevent the council ti'om referring the subject mater 0f the petition to the voters at the next regular or special electron.