RECALL PETITIONS

Section 113. The recall petition to be effective must be returned and filed with the city clerk within thirty days after the date on which the petition blanks are provided by the city clerk. A recall petition for the mayor or an at-large councilmember must be signed by qualified electors of this city equal in number to more than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of voters in the last municipal election at which three at-large councilmembers and the mayor were elected. A recall petition for a district councilmember must be signed by qualified electors of the district represented by the councilmember in number equal to more than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of voters for that district in the last municipal election where the district seat was filled. Each signer of any petition blank shall sign his name in ink and shall indicate after his name his place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place.

The elector may allow others to circulate a petition. Upon submitting the petition, the elector must submit a list to the city clerk of the names and addresses of all circulators that were authorized by him to collect signatures for the petition, and a list of the pages of the petition upon which each circulator obtained signatures. Attached to each petition, there shall be an affidavit of the circulator(s) thereof that he/they and he/they only, personally circulated the foregoing paper, that it bears a stated number of signatures, that all signatures appended thereto were made in his/their presence, and that he/they believes them to be the genuine signatures of those persons whose names they purport to be. No petition papers shall be accepted as part of a petition unless it bears the signature of the city clerk as required in Section 112 of this Article.