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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 96REPEALING. ",An ordinance_ providing for a certain deposit of money with the City Clerk of the City of Columbia Heights by the signers of a recall petition, in the case of the recall of any elective officer of the City of Columbia Heights, to' protect the City of Columbia - Heights ~gainst unnecessary election expenu ~'di tume s. The City of Columbia Heights does ordain.as follows: h~'?~'ordi~6~' providing for a cemtain deposit of money with the City Clerk of the City of Columbia Heights by the ~igners of a recall petition, in the case of t~e recall of any elective officer of the City of Columbia Heights, to protect the City of Columbia Heights against unnecessary election expenditures. The City Council of the Qity of_.~olumbia Heights does ordain as follows: This ordinance rel~es to the Provision in the City Charter know~ as Recall, relating to Sections 47,48, snd 49, which are as follows: "Section ~7. The Recall. Any five electors may form them- selves into a committee for the purpose of bringing about the re- call of any elected office~ of the city. The committee shall certify to the city clerk the nams~of the officer who~e removal is sought~ a statement of the g~ounds for removal in not more than two hundmed and fifty words and their intention to b~ng about his recall. A copy of thi~ certificate shall be attached to each signature paper and no si~atume pa~er shall be p~t into circulation previous to such certification." ~S~ction 48. Recall Petitions. The petition for the recall of any official shall consist of a certificate identical with that filed with the City Clerk together with all the signature papers and affidavits thereto attached. All the signatures need not be on one signature paper, but the circulator of every such paper shall make an affidavit that each signature appended to 'the ~aper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it PUrports to be. Each signature paper shall be in substantially the following form: RECALL PETITION proposing the ~ecall of from'his which recall is sought f0~ the reasons set forth in the attached certificate. This movement is sponsored bY the following co~!ttee of electors: ~.NAME ADDRESS 1 2 , The undersigned electors, understanding the nature of the charges against the officer herein sought to be recalled, desire the holding of a recall election for that purpose: 1 2 3 NAME ADDRESS At the end of the list of signatures shall be appended the affidavit of the circulator, mention above:" "Section ~9. Filing of Petition. Within thirty days after the filing of the original certificate, the committee shall file the com- pleted petition in the office Of the city clerk° The city clerk shall examine the same within the next five days and if he finds it irreg- ular in any way, or finds that~ bhe number of signers is less than twenty-five per cent of the total number of electors who cas~ their votes at the last preceding regular municipal election, he~'~shall so notify one ore,ore members of the committee. The committee shall then be given ten days in which to file additional signature papers and~ to correct the petition in all other respects, but they may not change the statement of the grounds upon which the recall is sought° ZE at the end of that time the city clerk finds the petition still in- sufficient or irr. egular he shall notify all of the members of the committee to ,that' effect end shall file the petition in his office. Ne further action shall be taken thereono ~ At the time of the filing of the completed petition in the office of the City Clerk as provided, in Section 49 of the Charter of the City of Columbia Heights, the electors filing such completed petition shallmdeposit with the City Clerk of the City of ColUmbia Heights, Five Hundred Dollars($500.O0) which shall be kept by ~hid City Clerk to await the outcome of said electiono In the event that said recall is unsuccessful and fails to receive a majority of the votes cast at said election, as provided by law, then the said Five .~.~Hundred Dollars($500.O0) shall be applied to reimburse the City of '.~Columbia Heights for any and all expenses incurred in the conduct and holding of said election. ~ III. In the event that said election is successful in the removal of the officers sought to be recalled, then the sum so deposited shall be ~eturned to the electors vho deposited the same. In the event that the electors, signing the recall petition are unsuccessful and in the event that the entire amount of Five Hundred Dollars($500.O0) shall not be necessary to defray the cost of the election, then the balance shall be refunded to the persons depositing the same. V. This ordinance is i~tended to regulate the holding and con- duct of recall elections in accordance with the provisions made therefor in the City Charter, and to restrain the indiscriminate~e of the recall petition of'the City Charter and the unnecessary financial expenditures by the~it~_gf Columbia Heights. m VI. This resOlution~shall ~ake effect thirty(30) days after its passage, in accordauce with the provisions of the City Charter. Yeas Be and the same is hereby repealed. SectiOn 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in fo~ce~thirtY.~30) days after.its passage in accordance with the provisiOn~ of the city cha~te~. Yeas: