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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 76ORDINANCE An ordinance providing for a certain deposit of money with the City Clerk of the City of Colu~bia Heights by the sign- ers 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 against unnecessary election expenditures. The ~'.~'~-_--,~. ~.-~_-_~_2--~J-~'~.~..~ City of Columbia Heights does ordain as follows: This ordinance ~=__ to the Provision in One City Charter known as Recall, relating to Sections ~7, ~8 and &~, which are as follows: "Section ~7. The Recall. Any five electors may fomm themselves into a committee for the purpose of bringing about the recall of any elected officer of the city. The committee shall certify to the city clerk the n~ue of the officer whose re- moval is sought, a statement of ~he grounds for removal in not more than two hundred and fifty words and %heir intention to bring about his recall. A copy of this certificate shall be attached to each signature paper and no signature paper shall be put into circulation previous to such certification." "Section ~8. Recall Petitions. The petition for the recall of any official shall consist of a certificate iden- tical wi~h that filed with the city Clerk together with all the signature papers and affidavits thereto attached. All the sig- natures need not be on one signature paper, but the circulator of every such paper shall make an affidavit that each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose na~ne it purports to be. Each signature paper shall be in substantially the following form: RECALL PETITION proposing the recall of from his office as which recall is sought for the reasons set forth in the attached certificate. This movement is spon- sored by the following committee of electors: ADDRESS 1 2 3 4 5 The undersigned electors, understanding the nature of the charges against the o££icer herein sought to be recalled, desire the holding of a recall election for that purpose: NAME ADDRESS 1 2 3 At the end of the list of signatures shall be app- ended the affidavit o£ the circulator, mentioned above." ,Section 49. Filing of Petition. Within thirty days after the filing of the original certificate, the committee shall file the completed 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 irregular in any way, or finds that the number of signers is less than twenty-five per cent of the total number of electors who cast their votes at the last preceding regular municipal election, he shall so notify one or more members of the committee. The committee shall then be given ten days in which to file additional signature pa~ers 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. If at the end of that time the city clerk finds the peiition still insufficient or irregular he shall notify all of the members of the committee to that effect and shall file the petition in his office. No further action shall be taken there- II. At the time of t_ae filing of the completed petition in the office of theCity Clerk as provided in Section 49 of the Charter of the City of Columbia Heights, the electors fil- ing such completed petition shall deposit with the City Clerk of the City of Colu~nbia Heights, Five hundred Dollars (4500.00) which shall be kept by said City Clerk to awai~ ~he outcome of said election. In the event that said recall is unsuccess- ful and fails to receive a majority of the votes cast at said election, as provided by law, then the said Five hundred Doll- ars ($500.00) shall be appliea to re-imburse the City of Col- umbia Heights for any and all expenses incurred in the conduct and holding of said election. !ii. 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 returned to ~he electors who depos- ited the same. IV. In the event that the electors signing the recall petition are unsuccessful and in the event that the entire amou~t of Five hundred Dollars (~00.00) shall not be necessary to defray the cost of the election, then tae balance shall be refunded to the persons depositing the same. This ordinance is in~ended to regulate ~ne holding and conduct of recall elections in accordance with the provis- ions made therefor in the City Charter, and to restrain the indiscriminate use of the recall peZition of Zhe City Charter and the unnecessary financial expenditures by the City of Columbia Heights. X' VI. This ~ shall take effect thirty (30) days after its passage, in adcordance with the provisions of the City Charter. Yeas: