Arizona republican., 1915-03-24

changed, increased or modified by ordinance of the Commission as it may deem proper and necessary 1 Shall sub section (f) of Section 1 of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 Each of said petitions must be of uniform size as determined by the city clerk; it shall contain the name of one candidate and no more; and I each signer thereto shall be a qualified voter of the City of Phoenix, ana must not at the time of having signed his or her name thereto. have signed any other petition for any other candi- date for the same office, nor in case there are several places to be filled in the same office, signed more pe- titions for candidates for that office than there ere places to be filled in such office."?
 1 Shall Section of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 "The petition or petitions for nom- , ination, consisting of signatures of qualified voters, aggregating not less than three per cent of the number of votes cast for mayor at the last preceding general municipal election at which a mayor was elected, may be presented to the city clerk not earlier than sixty days nor later than twenty days before the date set for election. The city clerk shall | endorse on such petition or petitions the date when the same was received by him."
 Shall Section of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as i follows
 1 The provisions of Chapter XVII of l this Charter, so far as the same re- lates to the filing of petitions for recall, the examination by the city clerk of such petitions, the verifica- | tion thereof by the said city cler.. as to the number and qualifications of the signers the return thereof in case said petition or petitions are defective or do not fully comply with the provisions of this Charter rela- | tive to the number and qualifications
 
 thereof, in case they are found suf- ficient to the Commission, so far as 1 applicable shall apply to petitions filed for the nomination of candi- dates for elective offices in the City 1 of Phoenix: said petitions may also be amended. as provided herein for the amendment of recall petitions. at any time prior to twenty days before Isuch election"
 I Shall Section of Chapter XII of
 the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 Immediately after such petitions
 are filed, the city clerk shall enter
 the names of the candidates in a
 list with the offices to be filled, and
 shall, not later than fourteen days
 before the election. certify such list as being the list of candidates as
 required by the Charter of the City
 of Phoenix; and the Commission shall cause said certified list of
 names and the offices to be filled, , designating whether for a full term : or for an unexpired term, to be pub
 lished in the proclamation calling the election. for the period and in the manner now or as may hereafter be lprovided by law or by ordinance of said city for the publishing of sucn election proclamation
 . Shall Section 14 of Chapter XII of l the Charter be amended to read as !! follows:
 ''The aforesaid primary election ! ,lol lz I,.,l1 <l,a,, tI,s, days prior to the holding of the gen. eral election herein provided for" Shall Section 16 of Chapter XII of l | the Charter be amended to read as f follows:
 , If at any election held as above l provided, there be any office or off ces to which no candidate therefor l was elected, then, as to such office Oi
 offices said election shall be consid- f cred to be a primary election for the $ nomination of candidates for such
 office or offices. and a second oI 9 general municipal election shall be r held to vote for candidates to fill 7 such office Orr offices. The candi- : dates not elected at such first cleo , tiOn, equal in number to twice the 1 number to be elected to any giver office, or less if so there be. and who received the highest number of vote: I for the respective offices at such first f election. shall be the only candidate: V lat said second election: provided '. that if there be any person who l under the provisions of this sub ! division, would have been entitled to b e come q candidate for any office excep Q for the fact that some other candiadt I. received an equal number of vote r. therefor, then all. such. persons re V ceiving said equal number of vote Q shall likewise become candidates fo Y such offiee.'.?
 1T Shall the third paragraph of Sec h ton 1 of Chapter XVI of the Charte
 be amended to read ;fs follows: 1T The provisions of Chapter XVII 0 V this Charter, respecting the form l. filing, certification. rejection and ac :: tion on reNll petitions. shall, appl r. to petitions of the kind referred t l. in this chapter. with such modified e. tion as the nature of the case ma ,e require; but nothing in said Chapte ,e XVII shall be construed to eXten