28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purpose set forth in this section. (c) matures to Referendum Petition. Each signer of a referendum peti- tion shall sign his or her name in ink, and shall place his or her residence address on the petition paper after his or her name. The signatures to any petition paper need not all be appended to one paper, but to each 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 Referendum Petition. All papers constituting a petition shall be assembled and filed with the clerk of council as one instrument. Within io days after the filing of a petition the clerk shall transmit all the papers constituting the petition to the county board of elections. The board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of regis- tered 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 attesting to the number of registered voters of the city who signed the petition. Upon receipt of the statement from the board of elec- tions, 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 has determined signed the petition. (e) Additional Referendum 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 9.3 (b) by depositing the notice in the United States mail with postage pre- paid and by sending to an email address indicated to be sufficient for no- tice by the member of the committee. The committee shall have 15 days after the notice of insufficient valid signatures is sent to file petitions con- taining additional signatures with the clerk. Within io days after the filing of these additional signatures, the clerk shall transmit all the additional petitions to the county board of elections. The board shall examine all sig- natures on the additional petitions to determine the number of registered voters of the city who signed the additional petitions. The board shall re- turn the additional petitions to the clerk within io days after receiving them, together with a statement attesting to the number of registered vot- ers of the city who signed the additional petitions. If the signatures are still insufficient, or if no further petitions have been filed, the clerk shall file 34