The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-28
REFERENDUM AND RECALL.

h In view OF the agitation Tor cnangel from
commission form of government to the alder
manic form, attention has been called to that
section Of the city charter which makes it pos
sible to recall any one of the city commissioners
at the will of the people.
Section 17-That the qualified voters may at
any time file with the clerk of the circuit court
of Escambia county, Florida, petition, or pc
titions, calling for the resignation of any COM
missioner of said city. Such petition shall con-
tain general statement of the grounds upon
which the removal of said officer is requested,
and each signer shall add after his and
mature, and opposite thereto, his residence adj
sdress. No degree of generality or lack of par
ticularity in the statement of grounds for re-
moval shall be ground for objections to such
petition in case such petition shall be signed by
at least twenty per cent of the voters who were
qualified to vote for commissioners at the last
preceding city election, and the said clerk shall
certify the said petition to the board of COM
ln:ssioners. 1t shall be the duty of the clerk of
the circuit court to examine into the qualifica-
tions of the signers of said petition, and if he
shall find that said petition does not contain the
requisite number of qualified electors to call said
election, he shall within ten days after receipt
of said petition notify the persons presenting the
same in writing of such fact, and thereupon the
persons SO presenting the petition shall have the
ten days within which to secure additional sign
ers to meet the deficiency pointed out by the
said clerk, and the failure to secure any addi-
tionaL number that may be necessary within ten
days shall said petition to be denied. If
the petition as originally presented is found by
the clerk to contain the requisite number of
qualified electors to call such election and the
petitioners shall supply the deficiency within the
time provided, then upon such deficiency being
supplied, the said clerk shall certify to the board
of commissioners that the requisite number of
qualified electors have petitioned for such cleo
ton, calling for the resignation of the commits
sioner named in this petition. If said officer
shall not on or before the next regular meeting
of the board of commissioners after the receipt
by the board of commissioners of the certificate
of the said clerk, as above provided, resign from
office, then said board at such meeting shall or
der an election to be held not less than thirty
adays nor more than forty days, from the date of
ssaid meeting, at which a successor to such Of
sficer to hold office for his unexpred term shall
3be voted for.
4 At this election the person sought to be re-
moved from office shall be a candidate to succeed
himself and his name shall be placed upon the
official ballot without any affirmative action on
his part, and other candidates for commissioner
for the unexpired term shall qualify the same as
a candidate at regular election hereunder. No
tice of such election shall be given by publication
once week for three weeks in some newspaper
published in the city of Pensacola.
Such election shall be held and the result de-
clared in all respects the same regular cleo
ton. The person who shall be elected to such
office shall hold the same for the unexpired term
nd Al
fcumbent whose removal has been requested then
he shall continue in office as though such pc
tition had not been filed or such election been
held.
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