The electors shall have the power to remove from office by recall any elected officer or a person appointed to fill a vacancy in an elected office. At any time after any elected or appointed officer has held office for six (6) months of the term for which the officer was elected or appointed, a petition demanding such officer's removal from such office may be filed with the Clerk of Council. A copy of such petition shall be filed with the Clerk of Council before circulation and shall be circulated and re-filed with the Clerk within thirty (30) days. Such petition shall comply with the provisions of Section 4 of Article VII and shall be signed by electors equal in number to at least twenty percent (20%) of the total votes cast at the last preceding Regular Municipal Election. If the Clerk shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to Council and to the officer whose removal is sought, and, if the officer does not resign within five (5) days thereafter, Council shall thereupon order and fix a day for holding a recall election not less than ninety (90) nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days from the date of the Clerk's certificate of sufficiency. At such recall election, the name of the officer whose removal is sought shall be placed on the ballot substantially in the following form:
Shall ( ) be recalled and removed from the office of ( ) for the term beginning ( ) and ending ( )?
Yes
No
If a majority of those voting to recall and remove such officer vote to remove, such officer is removed effective on the date the result of the election is certified by the Board of Elections to the Clerk of Council. All vacancies created as a result of a recall election shall be filled as stated in Article III, Section 3 or Article IV, Section 3 of this Charter.