Arizona republican., 1912-10-06
CHAPTER <.
 Recall


 the city may make and file with the city clerk an affidavit containing the name of the officer sought to be re- moved, and a specific statement not exceeding two hundred words stating the grounds of removal. The city clerk shall thereupon deliver to the elector making such affidavit a suf- ficient number of copies of petitions for such recall and removal, printed forms of which he shall keep on hand. Such petitions shall be is sued by tn city clerk with his sig nature and official seal thereto at tached; they shall be dated and ad dressed to the commission, shall contain the name of the person to whom issued, the number of forms so issued, the name of the person sought to be removed, the office from which such removal is sought the grounds of such removal as stated in said affidavit, and shall demand the election of successor to such of flee, a copy of which petition shall be entered in a record book to be kept in the office of the city clerk.
 Any defect in said form or record shall not invalidate the petition. Said recall petition must be returned and filed with said city clerk within thir ty days of it's issuance.
 Section 3. Said petitions before being returned and filed, shall be signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least twenty-five per centum of the entire vote cast for all candidates for the office of mayor or commissioner on the final ballot at the last preceding general munich pal election, and to each signature shall be attached his place of resi- dence, giving street and number. Such signatures need not all be on one pa per A qualified elector of the city shall make affidavit thereto that each signature appended to the paper is the signature of the person whose name it purports to be. All such papers for the recall of any one of ficer shall be fastened together and filed as one instrument, with the en- dorsement theron of the names and addresses of three persons designa- ted as filing the same.
 Section i: Whenever a recall pe- titiOn has been filed with the city clerk and while said petition remains in his possession, or has been certi- fled and submitted by him to the commission, no signatures shall be added thereto or taken therefrom.
 Section g. Within ten days from the filing of such recall petition, the city clerk shall ascertain by examina- ton thereof and of the registration books and election returns, whether the petition is signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, and shall attach thereto his certificate show ing the result of such examination
 Section s. If his certificate shows the petition to be insufficient he shall within said ten days so notify in writing one or more of the per sons designated on the petition as filing the same; additional signatures properly verified may be filed at any time within ten days from the filing of the certificate The city clerk shall within ten days after such refiling, make like examination of the additional signatures, and attach thereto his certificate of the result If still insufficient, or if no addi- tional signatures are so filed, he shall return the petition to one of the persons designated as filing it, with OuI pISJuOICC llOWcNeIg lO IIlS IlliIlS of a new petition for the same pur- pose.
 Section '. When the petition shall be found and certified by the city clerk to be sufficient, he shall submit the same with his certificate to the commission without delay, and the commission shall, if the officer sought to be removed does not resign within 
 said five-day period, order and fix a date for holding the said election, not less than twenty days nor more than thirty days from the date of the city clerks certificate that a suf- ficient petition is filed; Provided, however, that if any other municipal election is to occur within ninety days of the clerks certificate, the commission may, in it's discretion, postpone the holding of the removal election to the date of such other municipal election.
 Section S. The commission shall make or cause to be made publication of notice and all arrangements for holding such election; and the same shall be conducted, returned and the result thereof declared, in all re- spects, as are other city elections. If a vacancy occurs in said office after a recall election has been so ordered, the election shall nevertheless proceed as herein provided.
 Section g. Any officer sought to be removed may be a candidate to suc- ceed himself and unless he requests otherwise in writing, the city clerk shall place his name on the official ballot without nomination.
 Section TO- The nomination of other candidates, the publication of notice of such recall election, and the conduct of the same shall be in ac- cord with the provisions of this Charter relating to elections.
 Section IL The incumbent shall continue to perform the duties of his office until the recall election. If then elected, he shall continue in of flee for the balance of the term, un- less petitioners signing such petition shall first pay into the City treasury which has paid such election ex- penses, all expenses of the preceding election. If not then elected, he shall be deemed removed upon the qualification of his successor, who shall hold office during the 11Oex-