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general election special election be called for
that and such protested ordinance protested item
section part thereof shall effect become
erave unless majority of the qualified electors voting the
shall favor thereof until the proclamation Of
the Mayor is made as provided in Paragraph 45 OF this
Charter.
provisions Chapter of this Charter, respecting
the FORM filing cerfication rejection and action recall
Chapter with such modification the nature OF the case may
requre but nothing in said Chapter VII shall be construed to
extend the time for completing and filing good and suf
cient petition for beyond the said period OF thirty
days.
So Any ordinance measure that the Mayor and Board
Of Aldermen the qualified electors of the city shall have the
authority enact the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of
their motion submit to the electors Tor adoption or re-
lection at general special municipal election in the same
and with the force and effect is provided
At special election called under the provisions OF this
Charter there shall be bar to the submission of other ques
ons to vote Of the electors in addition to the or
herein provided for if said other are ucn
may legally be submitted at such election If the provi
sons Of two 2 approved adopted at the
election conflict then the receiving the highest
affirmative vote shall control.
ST. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen may, by ordi-
nance further regulations be to
carry out the provisions Of this & chapter 1
THE RECALL
So. Every public officer holding elective office,
either by election appointment is subj to recall
qualified elector of the city make and file
with the City Clerk affidavit containing the name of the Of
cer be removed and general not to two
hundred (200) stating the grounds of removal The
City Clerk shall hereupon deliver to the eector making such
affidavit sufficient number of copies of petitions for such
call printed forms of which he shall keep hand
Such petitions shall be issued by the City Clerk with his sigma
and official seal thereto aached they shall be dated and
addressed Mayor Board of Aldermen shall contain
the of the whom issued the number of forms
issued the of the sought be removed the Of
flee from which such removal sought the grounds OF such
mova stated in said affidavit of which petition shall
be entered in record book to be that the
office of the City Clerk Any defect in said form record
shall not invalidate the petition
54 Said petitions before being returned and filed shall
signed qualified electors equal twenty-five (25
enum of the number Of votes cast at the last gen
era election for all of the candidates for the office held by
such officer sought removed signature shall
be attached his or her place residence giving
number and date of signature Such signatures need not all
One the signers sheet of such petition the
person circulating sheet must make and subscribe
oath on said sheet that the signatures are genuine
papers for the recall of officer shall be
fastened together and filed instrument with the
thereon of the names and addresses of three @
persons designated as filing the same.
55. Whenever recall petition has been filed with the
City Clerk and while said petition remains in his possession
certified and submitted by him to the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen signatures shall be added thereto or
taken therefrom
petition the City Clerk shall ascertain by examination thereof
and Of the registration books and election returns whether the
petition signed the requisite number of qualified electors
and shall attach thereto his certificate showing the result of
such examination
ST. certificate shows the petition to be insufficient
he shall at notify in writing or more Of the persons
designated the petition filing the additional sigma
lures properly verified be filed at time within ten
1O) days filing the certificate The City Clerk
shall Immediately after such refing, make like examination
of the result still insufficient additional signatures
filed he shall return the petition to OF the persons
designated filing it, without prejudice however, to the fill
ing of new petition for the purpose.
58 When the petition shall be found by the City Clerk to
be sufficient he shall submit the with his certificate to
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen without delay and the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall Immediately notify the Of
cer sought be removed and if the said officer does not
sign within five days after said notification the Mayor and
Aldermen shall forthwith after said five 5) day
period order and fix date for holding the said election not
less than twenty 2o) days than thirty (3o) days
the date of the City Clerks certificate that sufficient