28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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tion shall be signed by registered voters qualified to vote for the office and equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total votes cast at the last reg- ular municipal election for the office of the officer sought to be recalled, in case the officer was elected by the voters of the entire city. The petition shall be signed by registered voters qualified to vote for the office and equal in number to at least 25 percent of the total votes cast by the voters of the officer's ward at the last regular municipal election for that office, if the officer was elected to a ward position. The question of the removal of any officer shall not be submitted to the registered voters until the officer has served one year of the term during which the person is sought to be recalled or, in case of an officer retained in a recall election, until one year after that recall election. (b) Recall Petitions. Recall petition papers shall be procured from the clerk of council. Prior to the issuance of petition papers, an affidavit shall be made by one or more registered voters qualified to vote for the officer and filed with the clerk, stating the name and office of the officer sought to be removed. The clerk shall enter in a record maintained by the clerk the name of each registered voter to whom the petition paper was issued and shall certify upon each paper the name of each registered voter to whom the paper was issued and the date of issuance. No petition paper issued under this section shall be accepted as part of a petition unless it bears the clerk's certificate and is filed as provided in this section. (c) Signatures to Recall Petition. Each signer of a recall petition 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 at- tached 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 Recall Petition. All papers constituting a recall petition shall be assembled and filed with the clerk of council as one instrument within 3o days after the filing with the clerk the affidavit required by Section 9.4(b)• Within 10 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 registered voters of the city or ward who signed the petition. The board shall return the petition to the clerk within 10 days after receiv- ing it, together with a statement attesting to the number of registered vot- 37