The registered voters of the Town of Smithfield shall have power
to remove elected members of the Town Council and School Committee
and other elected officials from office by recall, provided that the
recall may not be initiated during the last six (6) months of an incumbent's
term.
Any five (5) qualified voters may commence recall proceedings
by filing with the Town Clerk an affidavit stating they will constitute
the petitioners' committee and be responsible for circulating
the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and
addresses and specifying the address to which all notices to the committee
are to be sent and setting out in full the proposed name and office
of the elected official to be recalled.
Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioners' committee
is filed, the clerk shall issue the appropriate blanks to the petitioners'
committee.
The vote of the Town on a recall petition shall be held not
less than 30 (thirty) days and not more than 60 (sixty) days from
the date that the Board of Canvassers certified the petition as sufficient.
If a majority of the votes cast on the question of removal is
affirmative, the person whose removal is sought shall thereupon be
deemed removed from office upon certification of the election results.