28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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ers of the city or ward who signed the petition. Upon receipt of the state- ment 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 qualified registered voters the board of elections has determined signed the petition. If the clerk's certificate shows that the pe- tition contains insufficient valid signatures in its support, the clerk shall at once notify each person to whom the petition paper was issued pursuant to Section 94(b) by depositing the notice in United States mail with postage prepaid and by sending to an email address indicated to be sufficient for notice by any person to whom the petition paper was issued. (e) Supplemental Recall Petitions. In the event the initial petition con- tained insufficient signatures, it may be supported by supplemental signa- tures of qualified registered voters signed in the manner required in Sec- tion 94(c) appended to petitions issued, signed and filed as required for the original petition within 15 days after the date of the notice of insuffi- ciency by the clerk. Within io days after the filing of these additional sig- natures, the clerk shall transmit all the additional petitions to the county board of elections. The board shall examine all signatures on the addition- al petitions to determine the number of registered voters of the city or ward who signed the additional petitions. The board shall return the addi- tional petitions to the clerk within io days after receiving them, together with a statement attesting to the number of registered voters of the city or ward who signed the additional petitions. If the signatures are still insuffi- cient, the clerk shall notify each person to whom the original petition pa- per was issued pursuant to Section 9.4(b) in the manner described in Sec- tion 94(d). The final finding of the insufficiency of a recall petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose, provided that no new petition shall be filed by any of the same persons within one year after the final finding of insufficiency. (f) Recall Election. If a recall petition or supplemental petition shall be cer- tified by the clerk to be sufficient, the clerk shall at once submit the peti- tion with a certificate to council and shall notify the officer sought to be recalled of the recall action. If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign within five days after this notice, council shall order and fix a day for holding a recall election. Any recall election shall be held not less than 6o nor more than 90 days after the petition has been presented to council, whether at a primary, regular municipal or other general election or, if none of these elections shall occur within 90 days after the petition has been presented to council, at a special recall election called by council. The recall election shall be submitted to the registered voters of the entire city M