The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-15
Published in The Topeka State journal
March Is, 1871

| SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL
| NO. 70
AN ACT supplemental to chapter IS of
| the General Statutes of 1909 and pro-
viding for the recall of certain officers
in cities of the second class adoptir g
| the provisions of part II of said chapter
! Is relating to the commission form of
government.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of thu
Section 1. The holder of any elective
office in any city of the second class
which has adopted the provisions of part
II of chapter is of the General Statutes
of 1909, being chapter 50 of the Session
Laws of 1909, may be removed at any
| time by the electors qualified to vote for
a successor of such incumbent. The pro-
cedure to effect the removal of an incunl-
bent of an elective office, shall be fol-
lows: A petition signed by the electors
entitled to vote for a successor to the in
cumben sought to be removed equal 10
at least twenty-five per centum of the
entire vote for all candidates for the Of
flee of mayor in said city at the last pre-
ceeding general municipal election, de-
manding election of a successor of the
filed with the city clerk which petition
shall contain a general statement of the
grounds for which the removal is sought.
The signatures to the petition need not
all be appended to one paper, but each
signer shall add to his signature his place
of residence, giving the street and num-
Der. One of the signers of each paper
shall make oath, in writing, attached to
said paper. that the statements therein
made are true as he verify believes ard
that each signer to the paper appended is
the genuine signature of the person
whose name it purports to be; and. pro-
vided further, that the petitioners sign
more than one paper, the city clerk shall
attach them together and they shall be-
come one petition.
Sec. 2. Within ten days from the date
of filing such petition. the city clerk shall
examine the registration books of said
city and ascertain whether or not said
petition is signed by the requisite numbcr
of electors qualified as above provided,
and shall make a certificate showing the
result of his examination and attach the
same to the petition. If the findings of
the said clerk shall show the petition 0
be insufficient. the same may be amended
within ten days from the date of his Ger
tificate by the addition of additional
qualified signers. The clerk shall within
ten days after the re-filing of said peti
ton with him, make another examina-
ton of said petition as amended in the
manner above provided, and if he then
finds the same to be insufficient, said
petition shall be returned to the person
filing the same without prejudice, how
ever to the right of filing a new petition
to the same effect, but the original petit
ton cannot be further amended. If the
petition amended petition shall be
the clerk shall make his certificate to
that effect and submit the same to the
commission without delay. and said COM
mission shall fix a date for holding SAID
election not less than thirty days nor
more than forty days from the date Of |
ficient petition has been filed The com |
mission shall make or cause to be made |
publication of notice, and all arrange
ments for holding such election and the |
same shall be conducted, returns made. |
and the result thereof declared in all re-