Any elected official may be removed by the registered voters.
No elected official shall be subject to recall within six (6) months
after induction into office nor during the last six (6) months of
the official's term. If the elected official is retained in office
upon any recall election, the official shall not be subject again
to recall within six (6) months after such recall election.
[Ord. No. 1190 § 7.4(b), 10-12-1976]
(a) Number of Signatures.
(1)
Initiative and referendum petitions shall be signed by registered
voters of the City equal in number to at least ten percent (10%) of
the registered voters of the City at the time of filing of the petition.
(2)
Recall petitions shall be signed by registered voters of the
City equal in number to at least twenty percent (20%) of the registered
voters of the City at the time of filing of the petitions.
(b) The signatures on an initiative, referendum or recall petition need
not be appended to one (1) paper, but all papers comprising the petition
shall be uniform in character and shall be filed as one (1) instrument.
Each signature shall be executed in ink or by an indelible marking
device and shall be followed by the address of the signer. Attached
to each separate paper of the petition there shall be an affidavit
of the circulator thereof, stating that each signature appended thereto
was made in the presence of the circulator and is the genuine signature
of the person it purports to be. Each separate paper of a recall petition
shall bear the name and address of not less than two (2) unrelated
persons identified as sponsors of said petition and reciting that
the named sponsors shall have the right to withdraw the recall petition
at any time prior to the designation of a date for election thereon
by the Council.
(c) The full text of any proposed initiative ordinance shall be appended
to each separate paper of the initiative petition.
[Ord. No. 1190 § 7.6(d), 10-12-1976]
(a) When a referendum petition has been certified as sufficient, the
referred ordinance shall be suspended pending repeal of the ordinance
by the Council or certification that the ordinance has not been repealed
at a referendum election held hereunder.
(b) When an initiative or referendum petition has been certified as sufficient,
the Council shall proceed to consider the initiative proposal or referred
ordinance.
(c) If the Council fails to adopt a proposed initiative ordinance without
any change of substance within sixty (60) days, or fails to repeal
the referred ordinance within thirty (30) days, the Council shall
call an election thereon to be held within sixty (60) days thereafter.
(d) When a recall petition is found to be sufficient, and same has not
been withdrawn by written notice of withdrawal signed by all of the
sponsors thereof, the Council shall call an election to be held not
less than forty-five (45) days nor more than ninety (90) days thereafter.