Any person holding an elective office of the Township government, whether by election, succession, or appointment to fill a vacancy, shall be subject to removal from office at a recall election in the manner provided in this Charter.
A. 
A recall of an incumbent of an elective office shall be initiated upon petition signed by 30% of the registered electors of the Township-at-large, or of the district if the incumbent is a district Council member. Every recall petition shall name the office and officer against whom it is directed.
B. 
Each elector signing a recall petition shall add to his signature his occupation, residence, election district, and the date of signing; signatures on a recall petition may be on separate sheets, but each sheet shall have appended to it the affidavit of some person, not necessarily a signer of the petition, that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief the persons whose signatures appear on the sheet are registered electors of the Municipality, that they signed with full knowledge of the contents of the petition, and that their residences are correctly given.
C. 
A recall petition shall be tendered for filing to the County Board of Elections. No signature shall be counted as valid which is dated more than 60 days prior to the date the petition is tendered for filing. Upon tender to the Board of Elections, the petition shall be available for examination by any interested person within 15 days after the tender of the petition; the Board of Elections shall have the authority to pass upon the validity of the petition and upon the validity and number of signatures required thereon. The decision of the Board of Elections shall be subject to immediate review on appeal to the Court of Common Pleas.
As soon as the County Board of Elections has received a recall petition for filing and determined its validity and sufficiency, the Chairperson of the Board shall notify the incumbent named in the petition that the petition has been filed; upon receipt of such notice, the incumbent may resign from his office, and thereupon the recall proceedings shall terminate.
A. 
If the incumbent against whom a recall petition is directed does not resign from his office within 10 days after notice of the filing of such petition shall have been given to him, the County Board of Elections shall arrange a recall election. If a regular or special election is to be held not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days after the 10 days have expired, the recall question shall be placed before the electors at such an election. Otherwise, a special recall election shall be fixed by such Board for a date not earlier than 30 days nor later than 90 days after the 10 days have expired; the incumbent against whom a recall petition is directed may resign any time prior to the recall election, and thereupon the election shall not be held.
B. 
The following question shall be presented to each elector in a recall election:
"Shall (name of officer) be recalled and removed from the office of (name of office)?"
C. 
The above question shall appear as to every officer whose recall is to be voted upon, and provision shall be made for the elector to vote "Yes" or "No" to the question.
D. 
If a majority of the registered voters whose vote on the recall election shall vote "Yes," the incumbent shall be deemed recalled and removed from office; but if a majority of such registered electors shall vote "No," he shall remain in office.
E. 
Should the result of such election be affirmative, the date of the removal and vacancy in the office shall be seven days subsequent to the date when the results of the election are certified by the County Board of Elections, unless such date is further postponed by order of the court.
F. 
District Council members shall be subject to recall only by registered electors of their respective district.
No person who has been removed from an elective office by recall election or who has resigned from such an elective office after a recall petition directed to him has been filed shall be eligible for election or appointment to any office of the (Township) Government within two years after his removal or resignation.
No recall petition shall be filed against any incumbent of an elective office within the first year or the last nine months of the term of his office or within nine months after an unsuccessful recall election against them, but no officer who has been re-elected for a successive term shall be subject to recall also during the first year of such term.