Arizona republican., 1912-09-26
CHAPTER X.
 ReralI

tive office may De recalled tnereIrOm by the qualified electors of the City of Phoenix as provided herein.
 Section ?. Any qualified elector of 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 sui 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 the 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 he 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 har tO 1t no 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 1: Whenever a recall pc 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 ,, Within ten days from the filing of such recall petition, the city clerk shall ascertain by eXamina- tion 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 6. 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 out prejudice however, to the filing of a new petition for the same pur- pose.
 Section '. When the petition shal be found and certified by the city clerk to be sufficient, he shall submit I commission without delay, and the commission shall if the officer sought to be removed does not resign within five days thereafter, forthwith after 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 o1 the city clerks certificate that a suf- ficient petition is filed; Provided however. that if any other municipa 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 8. The commission shal make or cause to be made publication or nOtCe ana all arrangements IOi holding such election; and the same shall be conducted, returned and the result thereof declared, in all re- spects, as are other city elections. Ii a vacancy occurs in said office aftel a recall election has been so ordered the election shall nevertheless proceed as herein provided.
 Section O. Any officer sought to bt removed may be a candidate to sue ceed himself, and unless he request: otherwise in writing, the city clerl shall place his name on the officia ballot without nomination.
 Section 10. The nomination O other candidates, the publication O notice of such recall election, and th' conduct of the same, shall be in ac cord with the provisions of thii Charter relating to elections.
 Section IL The incumbent shal continue to perform the duties of hi office until the recall election. l 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 treasur, which has paid such election eX penses, all expenses of the preceding election If not then elected, h