(a) The electors shall have the power to remove from office by a recall election any elected officer of the City if an elected officer shall have served six months of his or her term. A petition demanding his or her removal may be requested from the clerk of council, who shall note the name and address of the person requesting the petition and the date of the request on the petition and deliver it with a receipt to the person filing the petition. The petition may be circulated in separate parts. Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and a statement in not more than two hundred words of the grounds for the removal. The petition parts shall be signed by at least the number of electors equaling twenty-five percent of the electors voting at the last preceding November election. The separate parts of the petition shall be bound together and filed with the clerk of council as one instrument.
(b) Within twenty days after the day on which the petition is filed, the clerk, working with the board of elections, shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements of this section. If the clerk shall find the petition insufficient, he or she shall promptly certify the particulars by which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the certificate to the person who filed the petition, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty days after the day on which such delivery was made in which to make the petitions sufficient. If the clerk finds the petitions sufficient, he or she shall promptly certify the sufficiency of the petitions to Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the officer whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery.
(c) If the officer whose removal is sought shall not resign within five days after the day on which the clerk delivers the certificate, Council shall forthwith fix a day for holding a recall election, which election shall be held not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days after date of such Council action. At the recall election this question shall be placed on the ballot: "Shall [name of the officer] be allowed to continue as [name of the office]?" with provision on the ballot for voting affirmatively or negatively on such question.
(d) If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such officer shall remain in office. If a majority of the votes case shall be voted negatively, such officer shall be considered as removed on the date the results of the election are certified by the board of elections, his or her office shall be deemed vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled as provided in this charter. The officer removed by such recall election shall not be eligible for appointment to the vacancy created by his or her removal.