Any elected city official, whether elected to office or appointed
by the city council to fill a vacancy, shall be subject to recall
and removal from office by the qualified voters of the city.
Before submitting the question of recalling an official to the
voters, a petition, signed by at least ten percent of the qualified
voters of the city registered to vote at the last regular city election
and demanding the question be submitted, shall be filed with the city
secretary. Each person signing the petition shall personally sign
their own name in ink or indelible pencil and the petition shall include
each signer’s voter’s registration number or date of birth,
name, residence address and the date of signing. The petition shall
contain a general statement of the grounds for which removal is sought.
(November 2, 2021, measure E)
A recall petition shall be addressed to the City Council of
the City of Pflugerville and shall distinctly and specifically state
each ground for removal in sufficient detail to give the city official
who is the subject of the petition reasonable notice of the matters
and things with which he is charged. A recall petition shall be in
substantially the form that follows and may consist of one or more
copies or lists circulated separately. Verifications as required below
may be made by more than one petitioner and parts or copies of the
petition may be filed separately by different persons.
We the undersigned voters of the City of Pflugerville demand
the question of removing (name of person) from the office of (name
of office) be submitted to a vote of the registered voters of the
city. The charges and specifications upon which this demand for removal
is predicated are as follows:
NAME
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SIGNATURE
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VOTER’S REGISTRATION # OR DATE OF BIRTH
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ADDRESS
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DATE
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The signature shall be verified by oath in the following form:
“STATE OF TEXAS
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COUNTY OF TRAVIS
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I, __________, being first duly sworn, on oath depose and say
that I am one of the signers of the above petition; and that the statements
made therein are true, and that each signature thereto was made in
my presence on the date it purports to have been made, and I solemnly
swear that the same is the genuine signature of the person whose name
it purports to be.
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(Signature)
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(Printed Name)
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Sworn and subscribed to before me this _____ day of , 20__.
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Notary Public
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State of Texas
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To be valid, a signature must be placed on a petition no more than one hundred eighty-two days after the original affidavit is filed with the city secretary as described under section
6.03. A petition signature is invalid if the signer signed the petition earlier than the 180th day before the date the petition is filed with the City Secretary. Certification procedures described in section
7.04 shall be followed for recall petitions.
(November 2, 2021, measure M)
The city secretary shall present a certified petition to the
city council at the next regular council meeting following certification.
Within five days after a certified recall petition is presented
to the city council, the city official sought to be removed may request
that a public hearing be held to allow them to present facts pertinent
to the charges specified in the recall petition. The city council
shall order a public hearing to be held not fewer than five days nor
more than fifteen days after receipt of a request for a public hearing.
(November 2, 2021, measure E)
If the city official whose removal is sought does not resign,
the city council shall order an election on the question to be held
at the earliest possible date as allowed by state election law.
If the majority of votes are against the recall of the person(s) named on the ballot, he shall continue in office for the remainder of the term, subject to recall as before. If a majority of votes are for the recall of the person(s) named on the ballot then, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition, he shall be deemed removed from office, and the vacancy shall be filled as required by Section
3.07. A city official removed from office by recall election shall not be eligible to succeed themself [themselves]; nor shall he be a candidate for any city elective office during the two-year period following the date of the election at which he was removed from office.
(November 2, 2021, measure E)
No recall petition may be filed against a city official during
the six months following their election or appointment or during the
six months following an election for that city official’s recall.
(November 2, 2021, measure E)