Agenda - Charter Commission - 09/30/2004

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CHAPTER 5 INITIATIVE, RElCERENDUM AND RECALL Section 5.2 General Provisions for Petitions. provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five registered voters of the city whose names and addresses shall appear on the petition. A petition may consist of one or nnore papers, but each separately circulated paper shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in sections 5.5.; :~:~5.7. or 5.S which apply, respectively, to initiative, and referendum and recall. Each signer shall be a r%istere, d voter of the city and shall sign his/her name and give his/her street address. Eacln separate page of the petition shall have appended to it a ce~*ificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each signature appended thereto was made in his/her presence and that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purpo~s to be. The person making the ce~ificate shall be a resident of the city and registered to vote. Any person whose name appears on a petition may ~vithdraw his~ler name by a statement in writing filed with the city clerk before said .city clerk advises the council of the sufficiency of the petition. 5.2.2 Petition' for councilm re~stered witl~n more pape?s, thereto, the infmanation be a registered voter and each signer sl~alt 3i page of the p. eti~!on- oath, that each. s'i ch-culatof believes then~:m.'ibe to be. The p councilmember appears on a petition may clerk- admiN:strator befot of tine p'etJt/0n.. Section 5.3 Determination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition in the o£Jice of' the city clerk. The required number of signatures for initiative and referendum shall be at least twer;ty percent of the total number of registered voters at the time of the last city-wide election. "J"hefecluired number of signatures for recall 0/f~'~.~ ~,~ elected at lar~. shall be at least twenty percent of the total number of-registefe~ at the time of thc last c/tv-wide election. coun. cih'nembcr elect=d'= ~r°m a Ward retistered voters in the Ward rePresen~ed of the last city-wide election. Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the clerk-administrator slaal] cxannine tine petition as to its sufficiency and report to the council within ten days. Upon ~'eccivi~q7 ~]'~c report, the council shai] deten~aine by resolution the suf~ciency of the petition.