28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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(a) Right to Initiative. Any proposed ordinance or resolution on matters that the city is authorized by law to control by legislative action may be submitted to council by a petition signed by registered voters of the city equal in number to at least 5 percent of the total votes cast for the office of mayor at the last regular municipal election at which a mayor was elected. (b) Form of Initiative Petition. Petitions submitting proposed legislation to council shall be filed with the clerk of council. Signatures to a petition need not all be appended to one paper, but all petition papers circulated regard- ing any proposed legislation shall be uniform in character and shall con- tain the proposed legislation in full. There shall appear on the petition the names and addresses of at least five registered voters of the city who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purposes set forth in this section. (c) Signatures to Initiative Petition. Each signer of an initiative petition shall sign his or her name in ink, and shall place his or her residence ad- dress on the petition paper after his or her name. To each petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator of the petition stating the number of signers to that part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and was made in the presence of the circulator. (d) Filing of Initiative Petition. All papers constituting an initiative petition shall be assembled and filed with the clerk of council as one instrument. Within io days of the filing of a petition the clerk shall transmit all the pa- pers constituting the petition with a certified copy of the text of the pro- posed legislation to the county board of elections. The board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of registered voters of the city who signed the petition. The board shall return the petition to the clerk within io days after receiving it, together with a statement attest- ing to the number of registered voters of the city who signed the petition. Upon receipt of the statement from the board of elections, the clerk shall endorse upon the petition a certificate of the result by showing the number of signatures required and the number of registered voters the board of elections has determined signed the petition. (e) Additional Initiative Signatures. If the clerk's certificate shows that the petition contains insufficient valid signatures in its support, the clerk shall at once notify each member of the committee described in Section 9.2(b) by depositing the notice in the United States mail with postage prepaid and by sending to an email address indicated to be sufficient for notice by CM