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CHAPTER 5 <br /> INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL <br /> Section 5.1 Powers Reserved by the People. The people of the City of Ramsey reserve to <br /> themselves the powers in accordance with the provisions of this charter to initiate and adopt <br /> ordinances, to require ordinances passed by the council to be referred to the electorate for <br /> approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. These powers shall be called the <br /> initiative,the referendum, and the recall, respectively. <br /> Section 5.2 General Provisions for Petitions. <br /> 5.2.1 Petition for Initiative and Referendum. A petition for initiative and referendum <br /> provided for under this chapter shall be sponsored by a committee of five <br /> registered voters of the city whose names and addresses shall appear on the <br /> petition. A petition may consist of one or more papers, but each separately <br /> circulated paper shall contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information <br /> specified in Sections 5.5 or 5.7 which apply, respectively, to initiative and <br /> referendum. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the city and shall sign <br /> his/her name and give his/her street address. Each separate page of the petition <br /> shall have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each <br /> signature appended thereto was made in his/her presence and that the circulator <br /> believes them to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to <br /> be. The person making the certificate shall be a resident of the city and registered <br /> to vote. Any person who's name appears on a petition may withdraw his/her <br /> name by a statement in writing filed with the city clerk before said city clerk <br /> advises the council of the sufficiency of the petition. <br /> 5.2.2 Petition for Recall of a Ward Councilmember. A petition for recall of a <br /> councilmember elected from a separate ward shall be sponsored by a committee <br /> of five registered voters whose name and addresses shall appear on the petition <br /> and who reside within the ward represented by the councilmember. A petition <br /> may consist of one or more papers, but each separately circulated paper shall <br /> contain at its head, or attached thereto, the information specified in section 5.8 <br /> which applies to recall. Each signer shall be a registered voter of the ward <br /> represented by the councilmember subject to the recall and each signer shall sign <br /> his/her name and giver his/her street address. Each separate page of the petition <br /> shall have appended to it a certificate by the circulator, verified by oath, that each <br /> signature appended thereto was made in his/her presence and that the circulator <br /> believes them to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to <br /> be. The person making the certificate shall be a registered voter of the ward <br /> represented by the councilmember subject to the recall. Any person who's name <br /> appears on a petition may withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed <br /> with the city clerk before said city clerk advises the council of the sufficiency of <br /> the petition. <br /> Section 5.3 Determination of Sufficiency. The committee shall file the completed petition in <br /> the office of the city clerk. The required number of signatures for initiative and referendum shall <br /> be at least twenty percent of the total number of registered voters at the time of the last citywide <br /> 10 <br />